Remembering Emmett Till

Tell, Dave

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“…It also aided the rise of violent hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. As evident in the notorious case of Emmet Till (Tell, 2019), who was brutally tortured and killed, presumably for having whistled at a white woman, the doctrine helped to convince white people that they had the right to murder black people, including teenagers, who violated norms of black subjugation. Throughout the Jim Crow era, white perpetrators were seldom convicted of such horrendously violent crimes, which white jurors and judges tended to see as justified.…”

Section: Ideologymentioning

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Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Wessells¹,

Kostelny²

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Violence against children is a pervasive problem that affects approximately half of the world's children each year, imposing heavy burdens of physical, psychological, and social suffering on them. People who are known to children-including family members-are among the main perpetrators of violence against children. This article analyzes how violence against children is a significant problem of peace, and it uses some of the main peace analytic concepts to illuminate the origins of violence against children and the likely means of preventing and ending it. Using a social ecological framework, the article first outlines the scale and the diverse forms of episodic violence against children at different levels. Next, it examines how structural and cultural violence against children undergird and, in turn, are supported by episodic violence against children. The article then examines current global efforts to end violence against children through a peace psychological lens. Although the analysis finds much of value, it points out how current efforts to end violence against children are too narrow, Western dominated, low on sustainability, and prone to causing unintended harm. Finally, the article discusses how work on ending violence against children would benefit from a holistic, multidisciplinary approach, focusing more on the interplay of episodic, structural, and cultural violence and on positive peace. Public Significance StatementGlobally, human well-being and peace are shattered by widespread physical, psychological, and sexual violence against children at levels ranging from the family to the international levels. The direct violence is undergirded and supported by structural and cultural violence against children. Although most efforts to end violence against children focus on direct violence, this paper argues in favor of a more holistic approach that addresses the intersections of direct, structural, and cultural violence.

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Section: Ideologymentioning

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Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Wessells¹,

Kostelny²

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Currently under a federal embargo, and thus off-limits to the public, one can only wonder how much protection it will receive, should it ever open. Will it be attacked and vandalised, as Jochein Gerz's famous 'anti-obelisk' against fascism (Debary, 2017), or as the memorials and mortuary graphisms made in honour of Marielle Franco, Emmet Till (Tell, 2019), George Floyd (Cappelli, 2020) or Zumbi dos Palmares (Chuva, 2020;Soares, 1999)? Will the obelisk seek memorial justice to the extinct favela and the thousands of Black lives that once stood in its place (Bizarria, 2014;Leeds and Leeds, 1978), or will the monument, in a radical Holocaust literality (Todorov, 2004), bury the Favela of Pasmado and its memories even deeper?…”

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Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro

Bizarria

Gomes

2022

Memory Studies

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This article discusses mortuary memory and ritual among subalternised populations, in their struggle against necropolitical violence, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as of the late 2010s. The case study analyses the conception, vandalisation and restoration of two graffiti works, made by Brazilian artists Panmela Castro and Simone Siss, with a decisive contribution from Malala Yousafzai. These works, made in honour of the late Councillor Marielle Franco, are often celebrated as material memories of the intersectional and anti-racist resistance against the mounting authoritarianism of the Brazilian socio-political regime. Yet, they are also confronted by discourses that seek to delegitimise Black and intersectional bodies as effective members of Brazilian society, deeming them disposable and unworthy of mourning. The analysis highlights the importance and the agency of mortuary graphisms as factors of mobilisation and memorial (in)justice, which question and destabilise hegemonic narratives concerning the racialised character of Brazilian society.

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“…Tells reflects on how different questions and places commemorating the Emmett Till affect the current economic well-being of the different small towns involved in Till's story, as Tell states "…the story of Till's commemoration is, quite simply, the story of race and the Mississippi Delta." [6] According to Tell, the 1st commemoration of Emmett Till in the Delta was place in 2005 where two roadside markers where erected outside Greenville and Tutwiler. Since then, over five million dollars have been invested in buildings and signage in the Delta to commemorate Emmett Till including roadside markers, two restored buildings, the Emmett Till Interpretative Center, among others.…”

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“…For all these limitations, however, the infrastructure ensures that the memory of Emmett Till has something it never had before: a material presence on the landscape on the Delta." [7] This paper explores a community engagement project to design a memorial dedicated to honor Emmett Till in a historical site in the Mississippi Delta that has been historically ignored, marginalized and vandalized.…”

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Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project

Ross,

Barrera,

Powney

2021

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In 1955, Emmett Till was 14-year-old when he was kidnaped and brutally murdered by two white men in the Mississippi Delta. This racist incident was one of the key events that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement’s work. Through a com¬munity engagement project to design a memorial dedicated to Emmett Till, this essay explores a studio pedagogy that aimed to introduce social justice in architecture studios. The “Emmett Till Memorial” community engaged project took place in Spring 2020 in the first-year architecture studio of the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. In this project, we partnered with the Emmett Till Memorial Commission (ETMC) to design a memorial at the Graball Landing site where it is believed Emmett’s body was found. Since April 2008, the ETMC attempts to commemorate this site and it has become a nationally recognized memory site. Unfortunately, the site has been subjected to repeated vandalism. This paper describes the different stages of this community engaged project in a contested site that aimed to embrace transformative service-learning ideas and critical reflection. The service-learning design project integrated field experiences, including visits to historic sites related to Emmett Till’s history and an immer¬sive experience with activists and community organizers from the ETMC. Using critical reflection as a pedagogical approach, discussions among students and community members cen¬tered on how the design outcome of this community engaged project would contribute to community conversations about the future development of the Graball Landing site as well as design vision and values that could be included in the new memorial and its restorative narrative. Students’ design proposals exhibited a wide range of design intentions and sources of inspiration. Employing symbolic and educational features, the diverse design proposals responded to specific environmental conditions of the place and explored how to engage visitors with Emmett Till’s history, the civil rights movement, and the future of racial reconciliation. Finally, this paper discusses how African-American historical sites have intentionally been ignored and marginalized and how architecture educators, students, and community members can partner to preserve sites of memory and to dismantle systematic racism in urban design and architecture.

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Remembering Emmett Till

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Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro

Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project

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