Comment on Tolnay, Beck, and Massey

Reed, John Shelton

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“…These findings have, however, been shown to be methodological artifacts in that they are unduly influenced by a few outlier observations and contingent on the exclusion of county units of observation with very small African American populations (Tolnay, Beck, & Massey, . For the ensuing debate, see Blalock, ; Creech, Corzine, & Lin, ; Reed, ; Tolnay, Beck, & Massey, ). Other sociological studies have, furthermore, failed to establish a link between lynching patterns and aspects of southern electoral party politics consistent with a political competition perspective such as the strength of the Republican Party and the Populist Party, which both to a lesser or greater extent challenged the hegemony of the White supremacist Democratic Party.…”

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The lynching of African Americans in the U.S. South: A review of sociological and historical perspectives

Smångs

2017

Sociology Compass

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Research in sociology and history on the lynching of African Americans by White mobs in the U.S. South around 1900 has in recent decades grown and matured into a substantive research area in its own right. This article has four purposes. The first purpose is to review dominant sociological and historical approaches in the lynching literature. One key feature of this literature is its bifurcation into one strand of social scientific sociological lynching research and one strand of culturalist historical lynching research. As a consequence of this bifurcation, the study of lynching long lacked sustained interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology and history. The second purpose of this article is to review recent sociological studies that attempt to bridge the disjuncture between sociological and historical approaches otherwise characterizing lynching scholarship. The third purpose of this article is to review other recent studies moving sociological lynching scholarship beyond dominant approaches and foci, including investigations of averted lynchings and investigations of the individual-level characteristics that made African Americans more or less vulnerable to White lynch mobs. The last purpose is to suggest how the contributions of lynching research have implications for understanding present-day racial injustices and inequalities.

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