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Lynching in the New South, Festival of Violence, and the Synergy of Two Disciplines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2021

Amy Kate Bailey  and
Piere E. Washington
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lynchinginterdisciplinary researchsociology
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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. 74 - 80
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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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1 We recognize that mob violence is so widespread in the United States that it has victimized people with many racial identities. The overwhelming majority of them, however, were African Americans, and extensive evidence links the widespread practice of lynching with efforts to politically and economically suppress Black people. We therefore frame our discussion to foreground the role that lynching played as a tactic wielded by domestic terrorists focused on advancing white supremacy.

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