Jerry Mitchell, “We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing with Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation,” ProPublica, July 25, 2019, ➝.
Alex Weheliye, Habeus Viscous: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 39.
Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 49.
Equal Justice Initiative, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Montgomery: Equal Justice Initiative, 2017), ➝. https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/
See Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (New York: The New York Age, 1892). “At least one hundred fifty women were lynched and thousands more assaulted by white mobs in the American South between 1880 and 1965, the majority occurring before 1930.” Crystal N. Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), 158.
Horace R. Cayton, Jr. and St. Clair Drake, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1945), 80.
Ariella Azoulay, “Introduction,” Civil Contract of Photography (Cambridge: Zone Books, 2008), 16–17.
See Mabel O. Wilson, Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).
See Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).
Azoulay, Civil Contract of Photography, 17.
“League of the South Resorts to Video Stunts as Membership Declines,” Southern Poverty Law Center, November 5, 2019, ➝.
See the Commonwealth Fund’s rankings on healthcare state by state, ➝.
Mississippi Department of Health, ➝, September 28, 2020.