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Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of Lynching

by Rachel Marie Williams
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781788739047
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 48
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 205 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): African American & Black, African American & Black, and Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman--Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time--were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.

Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives--and their mourning--matter.

Included are contributions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great-grandnephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on Black women's bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching's terror in American history.

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams is an artist and teacher, currently an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in Art and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. Her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. She has worked with incarcerated women since 1994. Her scholarship--both graphic and textual--has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and The International Journal of Comic Art, The Journal of Correctional Education, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, The Journal of Art Education, and Visual Arts Research.

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