CRM/LAW C163 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: White Supremacy, Monroe Work, Chicago Tribune
25 May 2016
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Micro-climates of racial meaning: areas marked with historic violence remain in conflict and exhibit inequality, racial violence in the past has led to modern instability. Racial violence had traces of structural inequalities present today. White privilege at the cost of black devaluation. Lingering traces woman in the city of marion claimed that lynching changed her life marion most racist city 6 decades later. Remnants can be physical (not just psychological) structural inequality perpetuated through dis-accumulation patterns and inter-generational implications for mobility and wealth. Wells launched campaign against lynching red record works that shine light on racial violence and white supremacism. Organize anti-lynching efforts used accounts from chicago tribune to legitimately illustrate lynching incidents to whites. Did this in the hope of building oppositional consciousness. In doing so she illustrated the fact that most people lynched did no crime (other than being a negro) - color line murder.
