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Title: Can Racial Stigma Explain Black Lynchings?

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: This paper explores whether racial stigma can explain the adverse treatment of blacks by whites. We utilize data on lynchings over a period of time that provide a natural experiment for determining how whites treated blacks who were former slaves. Latent variable specifications of individual lynchings are estimated where former slave status and economic factors are hypothesized to determine lynching probabilities. Parameter estimates show that conditional on being a lynching victim between 1882 - 1920, the probability of being lynched during 1882 - 1905 was conditioned by the racial stigma associated with being a former slave. However racial discrimination, captured by a measure of labor market competition between blacks and whites for jobs in the cotton-based agricultural sector, matters even more.

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Authors: Price, Gregory; Darity Jr., William

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Institution: North Carolina A&T State University

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Publisher Location: North Carolina

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

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