The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University) // April 9th, 2019 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 America’s history is marked by a striking image—“black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.” Abel Meeropol—a Jewish American—first articulated this line in his 1937 published poem, “Bitter Fruit,” after viewing Lawrence Beitler’s horrific lynching photograph. Although […]