1997
DOI: 10.2307/2952899
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Wounds Not Scars: Lynching, the National Conscience, and the American Historian

Abstract: Place the 203 in a row, allowing 600 feet of space for each human torch, so that there may be viewing room around it for 5,000 Christian American men, women, and children, youths and maidens; make it night, for grim effect; have the show in a gradually rising plain, and let the course of the stakes be uphill; the eye can then take in the whole line of twenty-four miles of bloodand-flesh bonfires unbroken.... All being ready now, and the darkness opaque, the stillness impressive-for there should be no sound but… Show more

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“…These criticisms often highlight the failure of traditional academic genres to engage audiences both internal and external to the university. However, other scholars point out that writing in traditional academic genres also limits our ways of thinking: making space for alternative forms of academic discourse, they argue, may help us to better explore the nature of our academic work and to make way for new types of scholarship (Behar, 1997/2014Bizzell, 1999Ellis, 1995Ellis, , 2004Royster, Kirsch, & Bizzell, 2012;Tompkins, 1987;Williamson, 1997).…”
Section: Part 3: Marginalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…These criticisms often highlight the failure of traditional academic genres to engage audiences both internal and external to the university. However, other scholars point out that writing in traditional academic genres also limits our ways of thinking: making space for alternative forms of academic discourse, they argue, may help us to better explore the nature of our academic work and to make way for new types of scholarship (Behar, 1997/2014Bizzell, 1999Ellis, 1995Ellis, , 2004Royster, Kirsch, & Bizzell, 2012;Tompkins, 1987;Williamson, 1997).…”
Section: Part 3: Marginalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Take, for instance, Bartholomae's (1995) position: he is wary of teaching students personal, expressive genres in the academic classroom; he views personal writing as "an expression of a desire for an institutional space free from institutional pressures, a cultural process free from the influence of culture, a historical moment outside history, an academic setting free from academic writing" (p. 64). Bartholomae (1995) Despite the risk of criticism, some academics in the humanities (often in anthropology and sociology, but sometimes in other disciplines like English, writing studies, and history) have turned to vulnerable genres to explore the relationship between their lives and their academic work (Ellis, 1995(Ellis, , 2004Tompkins, 1987;Williamson, 1997). Indeed, sociologist Ellis (2004) has described in detail a research method-autoethnography-which encourages the active exploration of the researcher's experiences.…”
Section: Part 3: Marginalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Social historian Joel Williamson (1997) has criticized the study of lynching in the United States as ''strangely disjointed and discontinuous' ' (p. 1252). Though scholars have recently intensified their academic interest in lynchings and established a more robust research record (Cook, 2011), there remains erratic and fragmented treatment of the contextual history of female lynchings.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In his article, Williamson (1997) presents an intimate portrait of the geographical and cultural setting of his home in Anderson County, South Carolina, just across the Georgia state line. "I grew up with a vague awareness that white men had lynched black men at some time in the past.…”
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confidence: 99%