Publications

Publication details [#52161]

Oriola, Temitope and Charles Adeyanju. 2009. Haunted: the symbolism of the noose. African Identities 7 (1) : 89–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | disadvantage | race | sociology | symbol

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on the Levinasian notions of 'justice' and 'responsibility for the Other', this study explores the sociological symbolism of the noose and African-Americans' imperative of the Gramscian 'war of position' in neutralizing the noose's symbolic terrorism.