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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Emmett Till"”.
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Photographs from the road: Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, Sally Mann and feminist road trip vision
… including sites related to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. I term the strategies at work in the case studies as feminist road trip vision. I argue that this type of vision, inspired by embodied experiences on the road, thrives upon documentation, partiality, situated knowledge, and sharing. …
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The Duty to Grieve Strangers
… focusing specifically on those made by Mamie Till-Mobley following the murder of Emmett Till, to demonstrate that such calls are indicative of an obligation that has heretofore remained neglected in philosophical examination. My argument challenges extant philosophical accounts of the duty to …
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Reporting Race and Resistance In Dixie: The White Mississippi Press and Civil Rights, 1944-1964
… formation of the Citizens' Council, lynching of Emmett Till, rioting in Oxford, assassination of Medgar Evers, and murder of three civil rights workers, the state certainly earned this reputation. Singer Nina Simone insisted that 'everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!,' but this dissertation …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …