Memorializing Lynch Victims: Countering Colorblind Ideologies with Experiential Learning. Issue 3 (July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bailey, Amy Kate; Leiker, Jason; Gutierrez, Andrew; Larson, Eric C.; Mitchell, Serena
• Is Part Of: Sociology of race & ethnicity. Volume 1:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 454
• Page End: 459
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Subjects: African Americans -- racial inequality -- violence -- colorblind -- race relations -- sociological imagination; Minorities -- United States -- Periodicals; Race relations -- United States -- Periodicals; Racism -- United States -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- United States -- Periodicals; Ethnicity; Racism; Race relations; Minorities; United States; Periodicals; 305.80097305
• DOI: 10.1177/2332649215583841
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2332-6492

Abstract

This article describes a class project designed to develop students' abilities to use their sociological imagination to better understand the structural sources of racial inequality. The event consisted of a memorial reading of the names of more than 4, 000 documented lynch victims in the United States. Authors conducted a pretest and posttest on racial attitudes in large Introduction to Sociology courses. Posttest responses evidenced less support for "colorblind" ideologies and greater support for structural sources of inequality.