Dr. Terry Scott is an award-winning professor at Hood College, an expert on US race relations and history, and incoming Director of the Institute for Common Power. We are thrilled to celebrate the publication in April 2022 of her book, "Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas. " Book can be purchased here. Dr. Scott will discuss the origins of the book and her research process, will read an excerpt from the book, and will take live questions. To register for the event, please click here.

Book Description: The book examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely clandestine strategy of extralegal punishment into a form of racialized recreation in which crowd involvement was integral to the mode and methods of the violence. Dr. Scott powerfully documents how lynchings came to function not only as tools for debasing the status of Black people but also as highly anticipated occasions for entertainment, making memories with friends and neighbors, and reifying whiteness. In focusing on the sense of pleasure and normality that prevailed among the white spectatorship, this comprehensive study of Texas lynchings sheds new light on the practice understood as one of the chief strategies of racial domination in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South.

Viewing: This conversation is free, and both (a) will occur live at 10 am PDT on Saturday, April 16 via Zoom, and (b) will be recorded for everyone to watch on your own timing. Registrants will receive viewing instructions one day in advance of the lecture and then one hour before the lecture.