Race, truth, and reconciliation in the United States: reflections on Desmond Tutu's proposal

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 whi...

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Auteur principal: Gravely, William 1939- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Creighton University 2001
Dans: The journal of religion & society
Année: 2001, Volume: 3
Sujets non-standardisés:B Willie
B Chapman
B Walker
B John Jay
B United States; Race relations
B Earle
B Reconciliation
B Lynching
B d 1947
B d 1911
B 1862-1933
B Racism
B Zachariah
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1522-5658
Contient:Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10504/64479