Panel Conversation, The Legacy of Lynching: Artistic Confrontations of Racial Terror
This panel conversation uses the Yale University Art Gallery exhibition Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural as a springboard for discussing representations of lynching and other racial violence, past and present. Lynching was and remains a public spectacle meant to challenge social and economic progress among black people and other people of color and reinforce white-supremacist hierarchies.