Elegy for Mary Turner An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
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Biographical note
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams is an artist and teacher, currently an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in Art and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. Her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. She has worked with incarcerated women since 1994. Her scholarship-both graphic and textual-has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and the International Journal of Comic Art, the Journal of Correctional Education, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, the Journal of Art Education, and Visual Arts Research.In this particular historical moment when young Black people are engaged in a renewed struggle against state violence, Mary Turner's story resonates. She insists that we #SayHerName too.
- Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project NIA, from the preface,
Harrowing. ... This succinct work confronts readers with atrocity, in a necessary tribute.
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
[Elegy for Mary Turner] retells the story [of Mary Turner's murder] in a manner at once unflinching, and, at turns, delicate. The delicacy is owed to Williams' rendering.
- Rosalind Bentley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Essential ... Williams doesn't just deplore unspeakable evil or try to argue with it. She confronts it in its own realm - the realm of art.
- Etelka Lehoczky, NPR Books
Elegy for Mary Turner brings America's brutal history of 20th century lynching alive through Mary Turner.
- Bill Berkowitz, BuzzFlash