Probs the best thing I've read in pol theory for a while. Deals with the inescapable relation between American imaginings of popular sovereignty and racial violence https://t.co/xD6IblMTBk
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What a thoughtful paper, theorizing lynching as a "distinctive exercise of popular constituent power—one that aimed not to create or alter legal institutions, but to police the boundaries of who can plausibly claim to belong to the political community." ht
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RT @CUP_PoliSci: MT @PoPpublicsphere: "Between 1877 and 1950, white mobs... lynched 4,075 African Americans—more than 1 person per week for…
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MT @PoPpublicsphere: "Between 1877 and 1950, white mobs... lynched 4,075 African Americans—more than 1 person per week for 73 years..." THE STRANGE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIBERTY: #LYNCH #LAW & POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN THE US https://t.co/P67GMKDULY https: