“…This organic, reflexive turn has also brought attention to lynchings motivated by the political objectives of citizenship regulation and land dispossession, as putting the magnifying glass on white supremacy and its shaping of a national tolerance for lynching as a preferred method of "crime control" was a known tactic of fire-starter Ida B. Wells- Barnett (2015Barnett ( [1895). Following her lead, numerous sociologists (O. C. Cox, 1945;Cutler, 1969Cutler, [1905; Raper, 1933;Work, 1913Work, , 1915, legal historians, and public practitioners (e.g., Hall, 1979;NAACP, 2010NAACP, [1919) amplified the anti-lynching gospel in order to change the material realities facing Black, Native American, Latinx, or other communities perceived to threaten white heteronormative patriarchal interests. 16 After decades of academic disinterest on the matter of lynching (see Brundage, 2005 for a review), scholars in the early and mid-nineteen nineties (e.g., Tolnay & Beck, 1995) revived the study of lynching and the explicit focus on the politics of citizenship.…”