Reconceptualizing Historic and Contemporary Violence Against African Americans as Savage White American Terror (SWAT)

被引:3
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作者
Spencer, Zoe [1 ]
Perlow, Olivia N. [2 ]
机构
[1] Virginia State Univ, Dept Sociol & Criminal Justice, 1 Hayden St, Petersburg, VA 23806 USA
[2] NE Illinois Univ, Sociol Dept, 5500 N St Louis Ave LWH 2090, Chicago, IL 60625 USA
关键词
White supremacy; Lynching; Terror; Terrorism; Violence; Police; African Americans;
D O I
10.1007/s12111-018-9399-3
中图分类号
C95 [民族学、文化人类学];
学科分类号
0304 ; 030401 ;
摘要
This work seeks to challenge the benign language employed in the discourse surrounding historic and contemporary white violence, particularly against African Americans. In so doing, this work develops language that more adequately captures the genocidal social control mechanisms designed to create terror through the physical and psychological brutality of white violence. Specifically, this work introduces the theoretical construct of Savage White American Terror (SWAT) which we correlate to historic patterns of violent atrocities such as lynching to contemporary police violence against African Americans.
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页码:155 / 173
页数:19
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