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Lindsey A. Dixon is a doctoral student specializing in Black American History at Rutgers University New Brunswick. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 2022. Her research explores racial violence, particularly lynching, of Black women as more than collateral damage to violence against Black men. She hopes for her work to have contemporary meaning and contribute to the way society understands racial violence as also being connected to gender and class.
Despite Anita Hill accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, the controversy surrounding him now is mainly about his politics. Yet, the story of Justice Thomas exemplifies a longstanding irony of racial uplift efforts: the elevation of Black figures who perpetuate the silencing or mistreatment of Black women.
