Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and <i>We Charge Genocide</i> petition
<p class="first" id="d320079e107">In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson, submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with genocide against Black Americans. The meticulo...
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| description | <p class="first" id="d320079e107">In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson,
submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with
genocide against Black Americans. The meticulously researched petition documented
hundreds of cases of assault, legal lynching (the use of the legal system to deny
Black Americans justice) and death that all amounted to a system in which the federal
government failed to protect Black Americans against injustice. Sexual assault figured
prominently in the petition. This article looks specifically at the case of Rosa Lee
Ingram as exemplary of both legal lynching and gender violence that were essential
to the argument that the United States was guilty of genocide. For Patterson and the
CRC, sexual violence and the threat of sexual assault, as in the Ingram case, was
symptomatic of a larger terror campaign that focused on Black Americans, circumscribing
their rights, their lives and safety, and confirming a white supremacist system that
punished Black male sexuality and claimed Black women’s sexuality for its own.
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| spelling | doaj.art-194dcb431eb146d89919c1639548f9852023-02-23T11:44:49ZengUCL PressRadical Americas2399-46062022-01-0171610.14324/111.444.ra.2022.v7.1.001Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and <i>We Charge Genocide</i> petitionDenise Lynn<p class="first" id="d320079e107">In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), under the leadership of William Patterson, submitted a 200+-page petition to the United Nations charging the United States with genocide against Black Americans. The meticulously researched petition documented hundreds of cases of assault, legal lynching (the use of the legal system to deny Black Americans justice) and death that all amounted to a system in which the federal government failed to protect Black Americans against injustice. Sexual assault figured prominently in the petition. This article looks specifically at the case of Rosa Lee Ingram as exemplary of both legal lynching and gender violence that were essential to the argument that the United States was guilty of genocide. For Patterson and the CRC, sexual violence and the threat of sexual assault, as in the Ingram case, was symptomatic of a larger terror campaign that focused on Black Americans, circumscribing their rights, their lives and safety, and confirming a white supremacist system that punished Black male sexuality and claimed Black women’s sexuality for its own. </p>https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.ra.2022.v7.1.001 |
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| title_full | Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and <i>We Charge Genocide</i> petition |
| title_fullStr | Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and <i>We Charge Genocide</i> petition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and <i>We Charge Genocide</i> petition |
| title_short | Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and <i>We Charge Genocide</i> petition |
| title_sort | gender violence as genocide the rosa lee ingram case and i we charge genocide i petition |
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