Righting Unrightable Wrongs: Legacies of Racial Violence in the U.S. South

纠正不可纠正的错误：美国南部种族暴力的遗产

• 批准号: 1045758
• 负责人: Joshua Inwood
• 金额: $ 16.48万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-02 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1045758&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Righting; Unrightable; Wrongs; Legacies; Racial

The United States of America has a history of violence directed towards persons of color. This project will investigate the ways that grassroots community organizations have tried to address long-standing impacts of racial violence in their communities through a focus on the Greensboro (North Carolina) Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC). The GTRC was formed in 2000 in response to the shooting of labor activists by individuals associated with the Ku Klux Klan in November 1979. Those shootings occurred when labor organizers were holding a rally and conference at a local public housing project to protest Ku Klux Klan activities in the area. As the rally progressed, some members of the local Klan arrived, and during the ensuing violence, five labor activists were killed and several more were wounded. Despite the efforts of local prosecutors and extensive video evidence of the events, no one was ever held criminally liable for the deaths. In 1999, local community organizers began advocating formation of a truth and reconciliation process modeled after commissions in South Africa and Peru. The GTRC was assembled through a grassroots democratic process that sought to integrate a diverse community perspective. In 2006, the GTRC released its report to the citizens of Greensboro. Through a broadly conceived qualitative approach that will use open-ended interviews, archival research, and discourse analysis, this research project will explore the results of the GTRC, focusing on the ways that community members addressed the legacy and memory of violence and how violence continues to undergird racial exploitation and frame an understanding of difference in North America. The majority of relevant research projects focusing on truth processes have examined them outside of a North American context. The U.S. South is home to a nascent but growing movement to address inequality and legacies of violence through truth and reconciliation commissions, and the Greensboro example may serve as a model for other communities to follow in North America.This project will explore the connections between the legacy of violence, race, and the construction of space to wider academic scrutiny. It will assist in more fully examining the legacies of violence and race in North America. The results of this project will contribute to larger discussions surrounding the impact that violence and race have in North American communities. For example, the GTRC process may serve other communities who are grappling with the legacies of violence and who wish to create the geographic conditions necessary to accomplish racial reconciliation. This project therefore will address the issue of racial violence at local, regional, national, and international scales and will contribute broadly to scholarship on race, violence, and space.

美利坚合众国有针对有色人种的暴力历史。本项目将以北卡罗来纳州格林斯博罗真相与和解委员会（GTRC）为重点，调查基层社区组织如何努力解决社区中种族暴力的长期影响。GTRC成立于2000年，是对1979年11月与三k党有关联的人枪杀劳工活动人士事件的回应。这些枪击事件发生时，劳工组织者正在当地一个公共住房项目举行集会和会议，抗议该地区的三k党活动。随着集会的进行，一些当地的三k党成员到来，在随后的暴力事件中，五名劳工活动家被杀，还有几人受伤。尽管当地检察官做出了努力，并提供了大量的视频证据，但没有人对这些死亡负有刑事责任。1999年，当地社区组织者开始倡导以南非和秘鲁的委员会为蓝本，形成一个真相与和解进程。GTRC是通过一个基层民主进程召集起来的，该进程寻求整合不同的社区观点。2006年，GTRC向格林斯博罗市民发布了报告。通过广泛的定性方法，将使用开放式访谈、档案研究和话语分析，本研究项目将探索GTRC的结果，重点关注社区成员处理暴力的遗产和记忆的方式，以及暴力如何继续巩固种族剥削，并构建对北美差异的理解。大多数关注真相过程的相关研究项目都是在北美以外的环境中进行研究的。通过真相与和解委员会来解决不平等和暴力遗留问题，美国南部是一场新生但日益壮大的运动的发源地，格林斯博罗的例子可以作为北美其他社区效仿的榜样。这个项目将探索暴力、种族和空间建设的遗产之间的联系，以进行更广泛的学术审查。它将有助于更全面地审查北美的暴力和种族遗留问题。该项目的结果将有助于围绕暴力和种族对北美社区的影响进行更广泛的讨论。例如，GTRC进程可以为正在努力解决暴力遗留问题并希望创造实现种族和解所需的地理条件的其他社区提供服务。因此，该项目将在地方、区域、国家和国际范围内解决种族暴力问题，并将对种族、暴力和空间方面的学术研究做出广泛贡献。