How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children: Stacey Patton on Strung Up

Podcast: Keen On America · Andrew Keen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

“The lynching itself was the explanation. The adults who were participating in a communal homicide are the curriculum.” — Stacey Patton For Halloween, a true American horror story. Last week, Joseph Kelly came on the show to argue that racialized American fascism has a prehistory running back to 1818. But today’s guest goes much, much further — both in time and in criminality. Stacey Patton wrote her doctorate on the racialization of American childhood and her new book is entitled Strung Up. It’s the story of how white America learned to lynch Black children. “Learned”...