{"product_id":"assemblies-of-sorrow-samuel-ng-9780252049743","title":"Assemblies of Sorrow: Performances of Black Endangerment in the Jim Crow Era","description":"During the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To this end, they organized public gatherings, mostly comprised of Black people, that fostered fears of looming physical harm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamuel Galen Ng illuminates this Black consciousness as it emanated from feelings of collective endangerment. The dissemination and intensification of such feelings became a pivotal way of solidifying a national Black consciousness on the eve of the Civil Rights Movement. Ng examines how performances of Black endangerment performed political work that provided Black people with important means of political organizing and insurgency. As Ng shows, the grief and mourning that took place at the performances provided public spaces for individuals and communities to observe specific losses capable of impacting Americans across the country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmbitious and interdisciplinary, \u003ci\u003eAssemblies of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e explores an overlooked facet of Black organizing and protest and traces how activists shaped fear and grief into political action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Ng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252049748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252049743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Samuel Ng","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852651344127,"sku":"9780252049743","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/assemblies-of-sorrow-samuel-ng-9780252049743","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}