Terror and Survival in American Lynching

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This course focuses on the history and politics of racial violence in the United States since Emancipation. It explores what it means to bear witness to these difficult, disturbing, suppressed, and yet critical events that continue to define the present world that we inhabit. The course thus asks that we encounter disturbing, violent and racially sensitive material. But we do so out of a sincere conviction that we cannot find a path to restitution, reconciliation and repair without first acknowledging, confronting and reckoning with the crimes of the past.