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Title: Interracial Status Competition and Southern Lynching, 1882-1930

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This article provides theoretical grounds and empirical evidence that different types of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South were driven by social processes at different levels of analysis. County-level analyses based upon new detailed data on lynchings in Georgia and Louisiana from 1882 to 1930 reveal that private' lynchings, perpetrated by small groups outside the public purview without manifest ritual, were related to whites interracial status and social identity concerns on the interpersonal level, whereas public' lynchings, involving larger mobs and ritualized violence, appear unaffected by such dynamics. These results validate relational and interactionist perspectives on violence, lend support to calls for disaggregation in the study of racial, ethnic, and nationalist violence, and shed light on the intertwining of racial identity formation with the generation of racial inequalities. They also carry implications for the study of contemporary ethno-racial hate crime.

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2015.1110610

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Authors: Smangs, Mattias

Periodical (Full): Ethnic and Racial Studies

Issue: 10

Volume: 39

Pages: 1849-1869

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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