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Critiquing state and gendered violence in the age of #MeToo

In 2007, Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted that 14-year-old Emmett Till did not, in fact, sexually harass and accost her in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955. He did not grab her by the waist. He did not call her “baby.” He did not brag to her about his sexual exploits with other white women. In many respects, Donham’s confession was inconsequential and, frankly, unsurprising. Even if Till had done all the things she claimed he did that day in 1955, none of them justified his sadistic torture and murder at the hands of her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam. They believed that Till, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, had violated the Deep South’s sacred gendered norms regarding black men and white women and must be made an example of. Till’s murder, his mother’s decision to publicly display his mutilated corpse as an embodied testament to the horrors of Jim Crow, and Bryant andMilam’s acquittal for killing Till helped catalyze the Civil Rights Movement to new heights of militancy and reach. The murder of Emmett Till has long stood as a macabre exemplar of the persistent deadly tropes regarding black masculinity in U.S. public culture. The myth of the black male rapist is central to justifications of race lynching and also the wrongful convictions