Contested Terrain: the State versus Threatened Lynch Mob Violence

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 i...

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Authors: Beck, E. M. 1945- (Author) ; Tolnay, Stewart Emory 1951- (Author) ; Bailey, Amy Kate (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: The American journal of sociology
Year: 2016, Volume: 121, Issue: 6, Pages: 1856-1884
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Southern lynching
Lynch mob violence
Racialized inequalities
State intervention in regard to lynch violence
New South