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presents the culminating talk of a three-part series: Murder, Mayhem and Lynching: Constructing, Race, Class and Gender in America. The last of the three-part series remains to be presented:\n<\/p>\n\n\tDr. Deborah H. Barnes, associate professor in the Department of English and modern foreign languages, presents the culminating talk of a three-part series: Murder, Mayhem and Lynching: Constructing, Race, Class and Gender in America. The last of the three-part series remains to be presented:\n<\/p>\n
\n\tTuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.<\/span> \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t \n\tSparked by passages in Toni Morrison novels depicting lynchings, Dr. Barnes began searching out historical accounts of lynchings. For more than a decade, she has been compiling and analyzing lynching narratives by witnesses and survivors. Dr. Barnes plans to publish them in an edited volume. During the 2013-2014 academic year, she presented a brown bag research talk about the business of spectacle lynching. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Deborah H. Barnes, associate professor in the Department of English and modern foreign languages, presents the culminating talk of a three-part series: Murder, Mayhem and Lynching: Constructing, Race, Class and Gender in America. The last of the three-part series remains to be presented: Written in Blood: Discourses in Lynching Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tGallery1 at One University Place<\/span>
\n\t1100 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39203<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_6256.jpg\")
The first lecture challenged popular narratives about lynching. Why have these narratives crowded out the historical evidence and record in the public mind? Using the study of American lynching as a launching pad, the lecture drew connections between epistemology, problem-based learning and contemporary curricular transformation. The second lecture focused on the ways that African-American agency as evidenced by African-American lynch mobs undermines popular narratives from multiple perspectives about the Jim Crow era. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n