Open Casket brings political and philosophical clarity to bear on the brutal murder of Emmitt Till and his mother's decision to show the world her son's body.
The open casket is a central motif, a political and ethical focal point, for thinking about Mamie Till-Mobley's pain and suffering and her profound act of truth-telling as she wanted the world to bear witness to the gratuitous, despicable, and atrocious dimensions of anti-Blackness. The critical and powerful essays within this book capture both the horror of Emmett Till's murder/lynching and the powerful agency and the indomitable Black maternal love and courage that Mamie Till-Mobley demonstrated. Through the open casket, Mamie Till-Mobley reclaimed her son's body, and re-signified his dignity and familial-relational meaning to white America, Black America, and the world. It was her agency-in spite of the horror of his disfigured body and the unbearable affective weight that she experienced by such a site/sight-that forced white America to witness the terror of anti-Blackness, to tarry with its own egregious systemic racism.
In solemn recognition of the 70th anniversary of Till's murder, George Yancy and A. Todd Franklin gather interdisciplinary voices to articulate the political, spiritual, and existential significance of Black hope in the face of seeming hopelessness.
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Open Casket
Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
African American HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Casket A. Todd Franklin
- Mournable George Yancy
- 1 Discerning the Dead Anita L. Allen
- 2 The Trace of Evil’s Reason: Emmett Till’s Open Casket and the Violent Evil of Black Nothingness Biko Mandela Gray
- 3 Reframing the Spectacle: The Reality of the Black Child Body Carolyn M. Jones Medine
- 4 Till’s Tortured Body as Sign and Symbol William David Hart
- 5 “If These Waters Could Talk:” Emmett Till and the Terror of Diaspora Waters Tracey E. Hucks
- 6 Mamie Till’s Black Maternal Grammar Lesson Kris F. Sealey
- 7 Debility of Terror and its Ethical Refusal: (Re)Encountering Specters of Emmett Till Devonya N. Havis
- 8 Bearing Witness to Horror Melvin Rogers
- 9 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Horror: Lessons Drawn from the Open Casket of Emmett Till Matthew Vega
- 10 Revolutionary Black Motherhood Beyond Resistance? Keri Day
- 11 G-Mom Mamie Till and Her Only Baby: Captive Maternal Ties to Ida B. Wells Joy James
- 12 Bobo and the Anti-Black Logos Josiah Ulysses Young III
- 13 Witnessing Emmett Till Molefi Kete Asante
- 14 Unconscious Resonances: Identification, Até, and the Mythic Emmett Till Sheldon George
- 15 Many saw Emmett, but not Enough Blanche Radford Curry
- 16 Emmett Till and the Aporias of Racial Terror Lynching Alfred Frankowski
- 17 The Experiential Absurdity of Black Being in the World: A Black Existential Analysis of the Murder of Emmett Till E. Anthony Muhammad
- 18 Blues for Mamie Till: A Testimony on Teaching, Black Men’s Internalized Guilt, and Emmett Till’s Casket at the National Museum of African American History and Culture Paul Cato
- 19 Pathological Agency Semassa Boko
- Index
- About the Contributors
- Imprint
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