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Contesting Publicity: The Politics of Legitimating and Delegitimating the Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction United States

Fri, April 4, 5:10 to 6:40pm CDT (5:10 to 6:40pm CDT), Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 7th, LaSalle 1

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This paper explains changes in discourse and cultural norms over time in the context of extra-legal violence during Reconstruction in the United States and argues for the causal role of transformation in the publicity of racial violence.

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