Knowledge and indifference in the New York City race riot of 1900: an argument in search of a story
On a street corner in New York City in the summer of 1900, an encounter between a white man, a black woman and a black man ended in the murder of the white man; soon thereafter, days and nights of white-on-black violence erupted in the neighborhood. When it was over, news of the riot
spread across the city, the nation and beyond, and yet no justice was done to the victims, ever. This essay begins to reconstruct the story of the New York City race riot of 1900 and offers the beginnings of an argument about the circulation of knowledge, before pondering questions about storytelling
and argument in the face of voices that have been erased and silenced in the archives.
Keywords: 1900; New York City; archives; argument; erasure; race riot; silence; storytelling; violence
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: New York University,
Publication date: 01 March 2011
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