Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Elegy for Mary Turner

An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

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In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not, when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see black corpses, and when black people fought to make their lives?and their mourning?matter. With introductions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great grand-nephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has l… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78873-904-7
EAN: 9781788739047
Produktnummer: 34089118
Verlag: Verso Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 80 S.
Masse: 368 g
Abbildungen: Illustrated throughout
Gewicht: 368

Über den Autor

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams is an artist and teacher, currently an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in Art and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. She has worked with incarcerated women since 1994. Her scholarship - both graphic and textual - has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, the International Journal of Comic Art, and many others.