Abstract:

In 1955, Mamie Till Bradley spoke throughout the country on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to bring justice to her recently murdered son, Emmett Till. While most scholarship focuses on Bradley's choice to publicize her son's mutilated body, I analyze her understudied NAACP-sponsored grief tour and her ensuing public fallout with the organization. Focusing on her attempts to create an infrastructure of care and compensation for herself, I forward the concept of grief capital to demonstrate how Black women and institutions make decisions based on the financial substrates of Black maternal grief.

 抽象：

1955 年，玛米·蒂尔·布拉德利 （Mamie Till Bradley） 代表全国有色人种协进会 （NAACP） 在全国各地发表演讲，为她最近被谋杀的儿子埃米特·蒂尔 （Emmett Till） 伸张正义。虽然大多数学术研究都集中在布拉德利选择公开她儿子被肢解的尸体上，但我分析了她被研究的全国有色人种协进会赞助的悲伤之旅以及她随后与该组织的公众影响。专注于她为自己创建关怀和补偿基础设施的尝试，我提出了悲伤资本的概念，以展示黑人女性和机构如何根据黑人孕产妇悲伤的财务基础做出决定。