Whiteness and political purpose in the noose , an antilynching play by Tracy Mygatt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22947447 |
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| Authors | Frances Early (0000-0001-8499-197X, Mount Saint Vincent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-48 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020200200309 |
| OpenAlex | W1975032606 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The article examines the first known US antilynching play by a white woman, Tracy Mygatt's The Noose (1919). Early takes up the notion of the antilynching drama as a site of political struggle, exploring the interface between social movement culture and personal identity and art production. Specifically, she explores how Mygatt, a feminist, socialist, and pacifist activist, sought to connect the politics of lynching in the South with that region's hegemonic white supremacist patriarchal system. She argues that Mygatt found white women complicit in lynching and used her play as a vehicle for urging politically aware white women to develop a strategy of resistance to it well before the formation in the 1930s of an organized white women's movement against lynching.
Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Hegemony · Identity (music) · Literature · Movement (music) · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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