RT Article
T1 Contested Terrain: the State versus Threatened Lynch Mob Violence
JF The American journal of sociology
VO 121
IS 6
SP 1856
OP 1884
A1 Beck, E. M. 1945-
A1 Tolnay, Stewart Emory 1951-
A1 Bailey, Amy Kate
A2 Tolnay, Stewart Emory 1951-
A2 Bailey, Amy Kate
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1692276832
AB Prior research on mob violence in the American South has focused on lynchings that were successfully completed. Here, the authors explore new territory by studying the relationship between state interventions in threatened mob violence and industrial expansion in the South. Using a newly available inventory of lynching threats, they find that the frequency of extraordinary state interventions to avoid mob violence between 1880 and 1909 was positively related to the strength of the manufacturing sector within counties and negatively related to the prevalence of a “Deep South cotton culture.” The authors’ research offers support for the hypothesis that mob violence was incompatible with the image of the “New South” and that contradiction motivated state authorities to make extraordinary interventions when lynching was threatened.
K1 Southern lynching
K1 Lynch mob violence
K1 Racialized inequalities
K1 State intervention in regard to lynch violence
K1 New South
DO 10.1086/685473