The premier journal of African Diaspora literature and culture, Callaloo, offers a review of Living with Lynching by black feminist scholar Courtney Marshall. Marshall's work centers on the criminalization of black women and promises to make important contributions as many Americans grapple with the ravages of the prison industrial complex.
Marshall's review carefully engages the work that each chapter of Living with
Lynching does. She concludes with an nod toward the book's investment in not
replicating the violence achieved by gruesome images of lynching victims. "By
excluding lynching photographs, Mitchell’s book enacts the scholarly move she
advocates. Her study includes visual images that support her argument that the
visual archive of lynching photography has dominated the conversations.
Reproductions of the playbill from Angelina Weld Grimke’s Rachel and the cover
of The Crisis are powerful antidotes to photographs of broken corpses hanging from
trees, light poles, and bridges."
