MetaFilter posts tagged with violence and lynching

Emos Hunted

BigSky — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:17:53 -0800

Violence against emos sweeps across Mexico. Emo Resistance. Anti-emo sentiment w/ video of mob attack. Coverage from Mexico. Emo attacks spread to Chile.

Sauvé du lychage

klangklangston — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:11:00 -0800

Saved from a lynching: Enrico Dangino, friend of Vigilante Journalist photographs a man seized by a mob and about to be set ablaze, then, with the help of his compatriot, frees him. More photographs and blogging from the ground in Kenya's current political crisis from Vigilante Journalist. via.

The Legacy of Lynching

psmealey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:59:04 -0800

African American Holocaust [Warning: contains graphic material] Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. In her new book, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century, University of Maryland School of Law Associate Professor Sherrilyn Ifill traces the ongoing impact of these crimes. While the lynchings were devastating, Professor Ifill argues that the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization of political and economic development for blacks, are equally pernicious, and that there's still a great deal of education and reconciliation that still needs to happen. [Previous Links]

...students arrived at the local high school to find three hangman's nooses dangling from a tree in the courtyard. ...

amberglow — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:20:20 -0800

Under the ole shade tree... Welcome to Jena, LA -- mix high school segregation, racism, nooses, fights, ineffective school administration, attempted-murder charges, shotguns, and a town in upheaval--a "racial powder keg". Much more here, including links to help.

likorish — Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:40:28 -0800

The Pornography of Racist Violence: NYT Columnist Margo Jefferson reviews "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America", and says the book is a "record of what we can call civil war crimes." She goes on to say:

"The images are also what the historian Leon F. Litwack calls, in his introduction, race pornography: they were often made into picture postcards that were mailed, with curt, gleeful or venomous messages to friends and foes with nary a peep from the United States postal authorities."