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    533. LYNCHING AND THE “RAPE MYTH” IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH

    533. LYNCHING AND THE “RAPE MYTH” IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH

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    Willie Hiatt

    When Reconstruction collapsed after 1877, the white South attempted to reassert control over former slaves and tighten the boundaries of citizenship. Two institutions became central to the performance of white dominance. After the 1890s, lynching became an increasingly public and violent spectacle, one in which merely killing the victim no longer sufficed. Similarly, white women’s accusations of sexual assault by black men frequently led to trials in which white men performed their protection of women’s sexual purity and virtue through the legal process. This is the second of two stand-alone talks on black history.


    10:00-12 noon

    1 Session

    Tuesday, February 24

    Fee:  $30

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Winter/Spring 2026
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Tuesday, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
    Date(s)
    Feb 24, 2026