TY - JOUR
T1 - Righting Unrightable Wrongs
T2 - Legacies of Racial Violence and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
AU - Inwood, Joshua
N1 - Funding Information:
Organization, a group opposed to President Fidel Castro of Cuba and sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency. It conducted the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The institute said that Mr. Manduley, who was elected the jury foreman, was one of five jurors who “expressed definite biases against Communists and/or in favor of the Klan and Nazis.” (Rawls 1981, A14)
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A community of scholars and activists has made this work possible. I am indebted to the anonymous reviewers who provided comments on earlier drafts of this article. I am also grateful for Audrey Kobayashi for her insightful comments that contributed to the final ver- sion of this article. I want to thank the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, as well as the activists, citizens, and widows who took time out of their busy lives to talk with me. I especially want to thank Jill Williams for her comments on earlier versions of this article and for her patience in answering my questions about the truth process in Greensboro. Micheline van Riemsdijk, Robert Yarbrough, James Tyner, Patricia Price, Deborah Martin, and Melanie Barron also provided assistance. Omissions are entirely my own. Finally, I want to thank Sarah for her insights into the truth process and a special thanks to Nic and Leura for their inspiration. A National Science Foundation Grant # 0961117 supported this research.
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC)-the first truth and reconciliation commission ever funded and seated in the United States-was formed in 2000 in response to a Ku Klux Klan shooting of labor activists that occurred in 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Despite overwhelming video and photographic evidence of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party firing weapons into a crowd and killing five people, no one was ever held criminally liable for the deaths of the activists. In 1999 local community organizers began advocating for a truth and reconciliation process modeled after truth commissions in South Africa and Peru. In a broadly conceived qualitative approach that utilizes open-ended interviews and archival research, this project explores the truth process in Greensboro, focusing on the ways in which community members address legacies and memories of violence through reconciliation and grassroots politics. The research exposes the connections between the memory of violence and territoriality to wider academic scrutiny, examines the legacies of violence and race in North America, and contributes to larger discussions surrounding the impact that violence and race have in North American communities.
AB - The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC)-the first truth and reconciliation commission ever funded and seated in the United States-was formed in 2000 in response to a Ku Klux Klan shooting of labor activists that occurred in 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Despite overwhelming video and photographic evidence of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party firing weapons into a crowd and killing five people, no one was ever held criminally liable for the deaths of the activists. In 1999 local community organizers began advocating for a truth and reconciliation process modeled after truth commissions in South Africa and Peru. In a broadly conceived qualitative approach that utilizes open-ended interviews and archival research, this project explores the truth process in Greensboro, focusing on the ways in which community members address legacies and memories of violence through reconciliation and grassroots politics. The research exposes the connections between the memory of violence and territoriality to wider academic scrutiny, examines the legacies of violence and race in North America, and contributes to larger discussions surrounding the impact that violence and race have in North American communities.
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U2 - 10.1080/00045608.2011.603647
DO - 10.1080/00045608.2011.603647
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867217666
SN - 2469-4452
VL - 102
SP - 1450
EP - 1467
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IS - 6
ER -
