| Popis: |
Many white southerners enveloped lynching in a shroud of silence, concealing their memories of these unpunished crimes in a fog of denial and projecting their guilt onto others. Some Black southerners also took refuge in silence, but theirs was born of a desire to shield themselves, their families, and their communities from the pain of remembering lynchings and the humiliations of Jim Crow. However, unlike literal silence—the absence of sound—these silences were neither ephemeral nor weightless, but could exact a heavy toll. This chapter unpacks the discordant resonances between white and Black silences and places them in the broader context of the civil rights era. |
