Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter African American History and Representation

Introduction: African American History, Violence and Problems of Representation

Andrew Dix

PART I: THE VIOLENCES OF SLAVERY

1. "The Zest of Sport": Representing Slave Hunting as Sport in the Antebellum and Jim Crow Eras

Catherine Armstrong

2 "My massa whip me, cause I love you": Violence towards Slaves in Antebellum Southern Literature Peter Templeton

3 "Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions": Moses Roper's Performative Resistance to the Transatlantic Imagination of American Slavery

Hannah-Rose Murray

4 "The Lynching Had to Be the Best It Could Be Done": Slavery, Suffering and Spectacle in Recent American Cinema

Lydia J. Plath

PART II: FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS

5 Making Lynching Male: A Canon-Shaping Tendency

Koritha Mitchell

6 Lynching Photography and African American Melancholia

Cassandra Jackson

7 A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider

Maggie McKinley

PART III: FROM BLAXPLOITATION TO #BLACK LIVES MATTER

8 "The baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad": Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the Politics of Female Violence in Blaxploitation Cinema

Andrew Dix

9 The Topos of Lyrical Gunplay: Hip-Hop and the Process of Civilization

Stephan Kuhl

10 Towards a Black Prophetic Critique of Neoliberal State Violence: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the Death of Eric Garner

Luvena Kopp

11 Formal Violence: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Contemporary Elegy

Gavan Lennon