Converging to a National Lynching Database: Recent Developments and the Way Forward

Cook, Lisa D.

doi:10.1080/01615440.2011.639289

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“…The different sources of data have been used in many studies and generally have been viewed as providing valid estimates of lynchings and their effects. It is, though, possible that estimates for particular sources may provide less valid estimates than others do (see, generally, Cook, ). In part for that reason, we present results from analyses of the southern sample data, which have been scrutinized more closely.…”

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Retracted: Lynchings, Racial Threat, and Whites’ Punitive Views Toward Blacks

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Disparities in historical and contemporary punishment of Blacks have been well documented. Racial threat has been proffered as a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. In an effort to understand the factors that influence punishment and racial divides in America, we draw on racial threat theory and prior scholarship to test three hypotheses. First, Black punitive sentiment among Whites will be greater among those who reside in areas where lynching was more common. Second, heightened Black punitive sentiment among Whites in areas with more pronounced legacies of lynching will be partially mediated by Whites’ perceptions of Blacks’ criminality and of Black‐on‐White violence in these areas. Third, the impact of lynching on Black punitive sentiment will be amplified by Whites’ perceptions of Blacks as criminals and as threatening more generally. We find partial support for these hypotheses. The results indicate that lynchings are associated with punitive sentiment toward Black offenders, and these relationships are partially mediated by perceptions of Blacks as criminals and as threats to Whites. In addition, the effects of lynchings on Black punitiveness are amplified among White respondents who view Blacks as a threat to Whites. These results highlight the salience of historical context for understanding contemporary views about punishment.

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“…As we noted earlier, more than three-quarters of the population lived in rural areas in 1880. Given the recent calls to expand the scope of lynching data to incorporate the national trend in lynching over this period (Cook 2012), future work can extend this analysis beyond the South and 30. Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas had the first, fourth, and sixth highest numbers of lynchings.…”

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Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching

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Parman³

2018

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The literature on ethnic fractionalization and conflict has yet to be extended to the American past. In particular, the empirical relationship between racial residential segregation and lynching is unknown. The existing economic, social, and political theories of lynching contain implicit hypotheses about the relationship between racial segregation and racial violence, consistent with more general theories of social conflict. Because Southern lynching occurred in rural and urban areas, traditional urban measures of racial segregation cannot be used to estimate the relationship. Earlier analysis has analyzed the relationship between lynching and racial proportions, a poor proxy for racial segregation. We use a newly developed household-level measure of residential segregation (Logan and Parman 2017) that can distinguish between the effects of increasing racial homogeneity of a location and the tendency to segregate within a location given a particular racial composition to estimate the correlation between racial segregation and lynching in the southern counties of the United States. We find that conditional on racial composition, racially segregated counties were much more likely to experience lynchings. Consistent with the hypothesis that segregation is related to interracial violence, we find that segregation is highly correlated with African American lynching but uncorrelated with white lynching. These results extend the analysis of racial/ethnic conflict into the past and show that the effects of social interactions and interracial proximity in rural areas are as important as those in urban areas.

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“…The Historical American Lynching (HAL) Project and cover the time period from 1882 to 1930. This dataset is the most extensively verified, publicly available set of lynchings in the literature (Cook 2012). Equally important, the existing empirical knowledge of lynching is closely tied to analysis of the HAL data.…”

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Inclusive American Economic History: Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow Laws and the Great Migration

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Temin

2020

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This paper records the path by which African Americans were transformed from enslaved persons in the American economy to partial participants in the progress of the economy. The path was not monotonic, and we organize our tale by periods in which inclusiveness rose and fell. The history we recount demonstrates the staying power of the myth of black inferiority held by a changing white majority as the economy expanded dramatically. Slavery was outlawed after the Civil War, and blacks began to participate in American politics en masse for the first time during Reconstruction. This process met with white resistance, and black inclusion in the growing economy fell as the Gilded Age followed and white political will for black political participation faded. The Second World War also was followed by prosperity in which blacks were included more fully into the white economy, but still not completely. The Civil Rights Movement proved no more durable than Reconstruction, and blacks lost ground as the 20th century ended in the growth of a New Gilded Age. Resources that could be used to improve the welfare of whites and blacks continue to be spent on the continued repressions of blacks.

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Converging to a National Lynching Database: Recent Developments and the Way Forward

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

Retracted: Lynchings, Racial Threat, and Whites’ Punitive Views Toward Blacks

Retracted: Lynchings, Racial Threat, and Whites’ Punitive Views Toward Blacks

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching

Inclusive American Economic History: Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow Laws and the Great Migration

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