Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror: Spectacles of Lynching

Alfred Frankowski critically examines how the spatiality of lynching violence continues as a politics and functions as an expression of political sovereignty.
He argues that terror spectacle lynching and the politics of racial terror are expressions of political sovereignty not only in that this violence was beyond the jurisdiction of law, but also in that it makes sense of the contemporary politics of the racial violence embedded in our sense of space and place.
Frankowski concludes that by ...