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Women’s Participation in the Power Struggle over Racial and Sexual Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Sarah L. Silkey
Sarah L. Silkey*
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Lycoming College
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womenlynchingraperacegender
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Special Forum: Lynching in the New South A Quarter of a Century Later
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 129 - 135
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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Notes

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5 For analysis of “black beast” mythology, see Williamson, Joel, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).Google Scholar

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10 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 6.

11 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 91.

12 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 64–70, 85–86, 127.

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15 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 142–43, 146–47, 149–50, 155.

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24 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 159–67, 180–84.

25 For example, see “Governor’s Remarkable Declaration,” Evening Telegraph and Star and Sheffield Daily Times, Aug. 13, 1897; “Lynching in America,” Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Aug. 14, 1897; “Life in America,” Belfast News-Letter, Aug. 14, 1897.

26 Martinez, Monica Muñoz, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), 48–50 Google Scholar; Gabriela González, Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 19–27; William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 118–22; Juan González and Joseph Torres, News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media (London: Verso, 2011), 220–24.

27 Notable transnational and comparative studies include Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006); Evans, Ivan Thomas, Cultures of Violence: Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt, eds., Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Robert W. Thurston, Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011); William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Perspective (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013); Michael J. Pfeifer, ed., Global Lynching and Collective Violence, 2 vols. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017); Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr., eds., Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).

28 Santamaría, Gema, “Legitimating Lynching: Public Opinion and Extralegal Violence in Mexico” in Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics, eds. Santamaría, Gema and Carey, David Jr. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017), 44–60.Google Scholar