Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror

Spectacles of Lynching

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Alfred Frankowski critically examines how the spatiality of lynching violence continues as a politics and functions as an expression of political sovereignty.He argues that terror spectacle lynching and the politics of racial terror are expressions of political sovereignty not only in that this violence was beyond the jurisdiction of law, but also in that it makes sense of the contemporary politics of the racial violence embedded in our sense of space and place.Frankowski concludes that by focusing on lynching, the spatiality of racial terror makes legible forms of global violence, largely through the dispossession of space, mass incarceration, and the degrading of environments, that operate as forms of slow genocide, on the one hand, and the centralizing of political power through the reproduction of spatially terrorized communities, generationally, on the other.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-30
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399559430

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Alfred Frankowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research interests include contemporary political philosophy, black aesthetics, critical race theory, German idealism, phenomenology, post-colonialism, and critical genocide studies. He is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence and Anti-Black Political Violence (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021) and author of The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Philosophy of Mourning (Lexington Books, 2015).

Powerfully disturbing and philosophically transformative, Al Frankowski’s Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror marks the first sustained book-length intervention in academic philosophy to treat lynching not as episodic brutality but as a constitutive form of sovereign anti-Black violence. Refusing to confine racial terror to the past, Frankowski traces its aporias across law, memory, sovereignty, and state power. Moving from the lynching of Emmett Till to contemporary carceral regimes, this work compels a fundamental rethinking of genocide, legitimacy, and the political itself. Urgent, uncompromising, and theoretically rigorous, this book reshapes the terrain of Black political thought and Black philosophy more broadly.