{"id":1153,"date":"2015-03-23T21:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/hamerinstitute\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2015-03-23T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T22:02:22","slug":"the-furrow-of-his-brow-the-lost-history-of-black-lynch-mobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/2015\/03\/23\/the-furrow-of-his-brow-the-lost-history-of-black-lynch-mobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Furrow of His Brow: The Lost History of Black Lynch Mobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Join us Tuesday, March 24, 2015, for the second in a three-part series,&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>Murder, Mayhem, and Lynching: Constructing Race, Class, and Gender in America<\/em><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">with Dr. Deborah H. Barnes, Associate Professor of English at Jackson State University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>This event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>located at 1017 John R. Lynch Street on the JSU Campus.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#A52A2A\"><span style=\"font-size:20px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em\"><em>The Furrow of His Brow: The Lost History of Black Lynch Mobs<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In this discussion, Dr. Barnes will explore little known lore about African American lynch mobs, which, like their white counterparts, were committed to keeping the peace, insuring communal protection, and establishing standards for acceptable behavior.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t**********\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The final lecture will be held on:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;font-family: georgia, serif;font-size: 16px\">Tuesday, March 31, 2015; 6 p.m., at Gallery1<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Written in Blood: Discourses of Lynching<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\tLynching culture and racial violence were normalized and spread through newspaper coverage, published accounts, photographs, ballads, art and memorabilia.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">The first discussion was held on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at the Margaret Walker Center. Titled,&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">The Noose and Pyre: Lynching and Racial Violence as Social Control<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">, Dr. Barnes took a new look at lynching culture and practice during the nadir of American race relations. Barnes further examined the strategic use of racial violence against people of color as a means to construct &ldquo;whiteness.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">These events are free and open to the public.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us Tuesday, March 24, 2015, for the second in a three-part series,&nbsp; Murder, Mayhem, and Lynching: Constructing Race, Class, and Gender in America with Dr. Deborah H. 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