Title

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

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2018

Abstract

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.

DOI

10.1007/s12111-018-9399-3

Publication Title

Journal of African American Studies

Volume Number

22

Issue Number

2-3

First Page

155

Last Page

173

ISSN

15591646

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