Assemblies of sorrow : performances of Black endangerment in the Jim Crow era /
"During the Jim Crow era, Black activists faced the twin dilemmas of pulling together migrating Black Americans while making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. One response: public gatherings, mostl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2026]
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| Series: | New Black studies series.
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| Summary: | "During the Jim Crow era, Black activists faced the twin dilemmas of pulling together migrating Black Americans while making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. One response: public gatherings, mostly comprised of Black people, that fostered fears of looming physical harm. Samuel Galen Ng illuminates this Black consciousness as it emanated from feelings of collective vulnerability. The dissemination and intensification of such feelings became a pivotal way of solidifying a national Black consciousness on the eve of the Civil Rights Movement. Ng examines how performances of Black vulnerability performed political work that provided Black people with important means of political organizing and insurgency. As Ng shows, the grief and mourning that took place at the performances provided public spaces for individuals and communities to observe specific losses capable of impacting Americans across the country. Ambitious and interdisciplinary, Assemblies of Sorrow explores an overlooked facet of Black organizing and protest and traces how activists shaped fear and grief into political action"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252049743 0252049748 9780252089404 0252089405 |