Jenny Woodley
Biographic Data
| ID | 6809876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Woodley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodley |
| SIGNATURE | WOODLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2158-1345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nothing is lost’
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the first national memorial to Black victims of lynching. Its purpose is to provoke a confrontation with the United States’ racial past, in the hope that truth will lead to racial justice. This article argues that in remembering the dead, the Lynching Memorial also allows and encourages visitors to mourn. During the peak of racial lynchings in the early twentieth century, it could be difficult or eve…
“Witnessing” Lynching in Scholarship and in the Classroom
Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 was published in 2009, just as I finished my PhD on the cultural campaigns of the NAACP. My project included chapters on the Birth of a Nation and images of lynching, topics also covered by Wood. I didn't have chance to read it before I submitted (by that stage I deliberately avoided reading anything that might have made me question my arguments). But as I turned my thesis into a book manuscript, W…
Art for Equality
This book explores what James Weldon Johnson called the “art approach to the Negro problem.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) developed a strategy that attempted to eradicate racial prejudice through altering the way African Americans were portrayed in a wide range of media and through the development and promotion of black literary and artistic talent. It launched a number of cultural campaigns during its fi…
Nothing is lost’
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the first national memorial to Black victims of lynching. Its purpose is to provoke a confrontation with the United States’ racial past, in the hope that truth will lead to racial justice. This article argues that in remembering the dead, the Lynching Memorial also allows and encourages visitors to mourn. During the peak of racial lynchings in the early twentieth century, it could be difficult or eve…
Art for Equality
This book explores what James Weldon Johnson called the “art approach to the Negro problem.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) developed a strategy that attempted to eradicate racial prejudice through altering the way African Americans were portrayed in a wide range of media and through the development and promotion of black literary and artistic talent. It launched a number of cultural campaigns during its fi…
“Witnessing” Lynching in Scholarship and in the Classroom
Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 was published in 2009, just as I finished my PhD on the cultural campaigns of the NAACP. My project included chapters on the Birth of a Nation and images of lynching, topics also covered by Wood. I didn't have chance to read it before I submitted (by that stage I deliberately avoided reading anything that might have made me question my arguments). But as I turned my thesis into a book manuscript, W…
Nothing is lost’
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the first national memorial to Black victims of lynching. Its purpose is to provoke a confrontation with the United States’ racial past, in the hope that truth will lead to racial justice. This article argues that in remembering the dead, the Lynching Memorial also allows and encourages visitors to mourn. During the peak of racial lynchings in the early twentieth century, it could be difficult or eve…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 work) · Advertising (1 work) · African American artists (1 work) · African americans (1 work)