Doing Violence, Making Race - Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.s. South, 1882-1930

Zusatztext In Doing Violence! Making Race Professor Smångs uses nuanced theoretical framing! sophisticated statistical analysis! and a thorough knowledge of the history of the American South to take the study of lynching and racial boundary formation to a higher level. As a result! Doing Violence! Making Race is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the shameful history of southern mob violence and its continuing influence on American society. Stewart E. Tolnay! S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology! Department of Sociology! University of Washington! Seattle! USA Informationen zum Autor Mattias Smångs is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Yale University, and a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University. Klappentext This volume demonstrates how different forms of lynching fed off and into the formation of the racial group boundaries and identities at the foundation of the Jim Crow system. Zusammenfassung This volume demonstrates how different forms of lynching fed off and into the formation of the racial group boundaries and identities at the foundation of the Jim Crow system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. A Theoretical-Conceptual Framework of Group Formation and Intergroup Violence 3. From Slavery to Jim Crow: The Historical Context of Lynching 4. Lynching as Collective and Interpersonal Intergroup Violence 5. Lynching and the Making of the Jim Crow Color-line 6. Lynching and the Making of the Solid White South 7. Lynching, Interracial Status Competition, and Social White Identities 8. Lynching, Jim Crow, and Beyond Methodological Appendix

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• Authors: Mattias Smangs, Mattias (Yale University Smangs, Mattias (Yale University Usa) Smangs, Mattias Smångs
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367358051
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35805-1
• No. of pages: 247
• Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity