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

美利坚合众国有着针对有色人种的暴力历史。 该项目将调查基层社区组织如何通过关注格林斯伯勒（北卡罗来纳州）真相与和解委员会（GTRC），努力解决种族暴力在其社区的长期影响。 GTRC成立于2000年，是为了回应1979年11月与三K党有关联的个人枪杀劳工活动人士的事件。 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，抗议三K党在该地区的活动。 随着集会的进行，当地的一些三K党成员也赶到了，在随后的暴力事件中，五名劳工活动人士被打死，另有几人受伤。 尽管当地检察官做出了努力，并提供了大量视频证据，但没有人对这些死亡事件承担刑事责任。 1999年，当地社区组织者开始倡导仿照南非和秘鲁的委员会，建立一个真相与和解进程。 GTRC是通过基层民主进程组建的，该进程寻求整合不同的社区观点。 2006年，GTRC向格林斯伯勒的公民发布了报告。 通过广泛构思的定性方法，将使用开放式访谈，档案研究和话语分析，这个研究项目将探讨GTRC的结果，重点是社区成员解决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和框架在北美的差异的理解。 大多数关注真相过程的相关研究项目都在北美背景之外对其进行了研究。 美国南部是一个新生的，但不断增长的运动，以解决不平等和暴力的遗产，通过真相与和解委员会，和格林斯伯勒的例子可能作为一个模型，为其他社区在北美遵循。这个项目将探讨暴力，种族和空间的建设遗产更广泛的学术审查之间的联系。 它将有助于更充分地审查北美暴力和种族的遗留问题。 该项目的成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，全球真相与和解委员会进程可为正在努力消除暴力遗留问题并希望创造实现种族和解所需地理条件的其他社区服务。 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，并将广泛促进种族，暴力和空间的学术研究。

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.