RT Article
T1 Race, truth, and reconciliation in the United States: reflections on Desmond Tutu's proposal
JF The journal of religion & society
VO 3
A1 Gravely, William 1939-
LA English
PB Creighton University
YR 2001
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1807092437
AB Desmond Tutu's suggestion that U. S. society should have a truth and reconciliation process about its racist past prompts this investigation into historical scholarship on racial violence. The lynchings of Zachariah Walker (1911) and of Willie Earle (1947) reveal different regional memories which deny or acknowledge the past. By contrast Wilmington, NC in 1998 re-collected a white supremacist coup (1898) in ways that were transformational for the present. The essay points to legacies of racial violence in hate crimes, in backlash against affirmative action and in continued racialization of citizenship and the census.
K1 1862-1933
K1 Chapman
K1 Earle
K1 John Jay
K1 Lynching
K1 Racism
K1 Reconciliation
K1 United States; Race relations
K1 Walker
K1 Willie
K1 Zachariah
K1 d 1911
K1 d 1947