Racialized lynching in the U.S., has a longer history than many people might realize today. Anti-Black lynchings occurred during the antebellum era in free states such as New York where pro-slavery New Yorkers committed murder in the streets. “Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves; black body swinging in the
Blood on the Streets: Civil War Era Lynching Read More »
Blood involves desires to control and dictate responsibility, rooted in the relatedness of one person to the next. But why does one drop of non-White blood automatically identify you with a lesser race?
It was only in the 1960s that American horror cinema was mature enough to show the first traces of blood on screen, demonstrating how realism in cinema is constructed rather than a given.
An Orange-Colored Blood: Gore in 1960s American Cinema and Questions of Realism Read More »
Accusing immigrants of poisoning Americans’ blood is one of the most recent attacks by far-right politicians on populations of color in the United States. The disturbing accusation draws on historical processes of “monstrifying” immigrant groups from the global South.
Monsters That Poison The Blood: The Monstrification Of Immigrants In U.S. Politics Read More »
The U.S. criminal justice system has created an endless supply of cheap labor that profits businesses and the local and national government. Does this system have connections to slavery?
‘Except as a Punishment for Crime’: Black Labor and the US Criminal Justice System Read More »
