Recontextualizing responsibility for justice: the lynching trope, racialized temporalities, and cultivating breathable futures

This essay critically engages the Equal Justice Initiative's (EJI) Lynching in America report to illuminate how it uses lynching as a trope to gesture to an otherwise temporality of anti-Black violence that recontextualizes what it means to be responsible for structural injustice. Overall, thro...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 139 - 162
Main Author Houdek, Matthew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.04.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
anti-Black violence
Cultural studies
Culture
racial rhetorical criticism
racial suffocation
structural justice
whiteness
United States > US
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Summary:This essay critically engages the Equal Justice Initiative's (EJI) Lynching in America report to illuminate how it uses lynching as a trope to gesture to an otherwise temporality of anti-Black violence that recontextualizes what it means to be responsible for structural injustice. Overall, through my analysis and by engaging theories of justice, racialization, and racialized time, while also centering the language of breathing and suffocation drawn from various Black voices, I advance a breathing-centered conception of responsibility for justice that is attuned to imagining a future beyond the enduring legacies of lynching.
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ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2020.1865552