The Intersectional Limits of Lynching: Why Violence Against Black Women is Invisible

• In Event: Topics in Gender and Politics

Brief Overview

We use a survey experiment to explore the limitations of the lynching frame to invoke sympathy for violence against black women utilizing intersectional theories of violence and to explore black women’s exclusion from lynching narratives.

Authors

• Layla Brooks, Emory University

• Kiela Crabtree, Emory University