{"product_id":"elegy-for-mary-turner-an-illustrated-account-of-a-lynching-9781788739047","title":"Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman--Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time--were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, \u003ci\u003eElegy for Mary Turner\u003c\/i\u003e names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives--and their mourning--matter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded are contributions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great-grandnephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on Black women's bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching's terror in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Marie-Crane Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is an artist and teacher, currently an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in Art and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. Her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. She has worked with incarcerated women since 1994. Her scholarship--both graphic and textual--has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe International Journal of Comic Art\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Correctional Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Art Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVisual Arts Research\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50376972665106,"sku":"9781788739047","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87c13f69-7a1f-487e-a579-87fd790f074d.jpg?v=1728612453","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elegy-for-mary-turner-an-illustrated-account-of-a-lynching-9781788739047","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}