Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching

Cook, Lisa D.; Logan, Trevon D.; Parman, John

doi:10.1017/ssh.2018.21

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“…One complication is that the violence begins after Redemption starts, and another is the question of how such persistent political power coincided with black officeholding, which should be less common in areas with a persistent ruling elite. Cook et al (2016) find no effects of black political leadership on lynchings in the Jim Crow era.…”

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confidence: 75%

“… See Larsen (2015), for example, who estimates death rates for seven confederate states. 14Larsen (2015) argues that Confederate death rates were negatively related to lynching Cook et al (2016),. however, find no evidence that lynching was related to the presence of black politicians during Reconstruction.15 This is not an issue of the quality of the leadership, but whether there were unfilled positions.16 See above for more on the correlation of free blacks with other variables.…”

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Do Black Politicians Matter?

Logan¹

2018

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This paper exploits the history of Reconstruction after the American Civil War to estimate the causal effect of politician race on public finance. I overcome the endogeneity between electoral preferences and black representation using the number of free blacks in the antebellum era (1860) as an instrument for black political leaders during Reconstruction. IV estimates show that an additional black official increased per capita county tax revenue by $0.20, more than an hour's wage at the time. The effect was not persistent, however, disappearing entirely at Reconstruction's end. Consistent with the stated policy objectives of black officials, I find positive effects of black politicians on land tenancy and show that exposure to black politicians decreased the black-white literacy gap by more than 7%. These results suggest that politician race has large effects on public finance and individual outcomes over and above electoral preferences for redistribution.

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Logan¹

2018

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“…Several studies have identified the relationship between lynching and black/ white residential segregation as significant. both Defina and hannon (2011) and Cook, Logan, and Parman (2018) demonstrated that higher rates of lynching are positively and statistically significantly related to higher rates of current residential segregation. beyond the statistical relationship, lynching and violent forms of racial social control were intentionally used by whites to maintain geographically defined boundaries (Tolnay and beck 1992).…”

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“…This violence resulted in the physical relocation of many from these communities (Zucchino 2020). Residential segregation offers a useful case for the current analysis, as it impacts social, economic, and political patterns and outcomes (Cook, Logan, and Parman 2018). The socio-spatial position of individuals in neighborhoods influences everything-from exposure to environmental racism, to crime and policing, to access to education and other public services, and capacity for wealth accumulation to name a few (Crowder and Downey 2010;Krivo, Peterson, and Kuhl 2009;flippen 2004).…”

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Measuring Legacies of Collective Racial Violence

Gaby¹

2021

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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The “legacy effect” of lynchings and other forms of racialized violence has shaped patterns of inequality in America. While past studies have been relatively similar in their design—relating basic counts of lynchings to various contemporary outcomes—I argue for and demonstrate a more nuanced approach. I show that if we think of racialized violence as more than just the act of lynching, and consider both the temporal and spatial proximity between historic events of racial violence and contemporary inequality, we can establish this relationship in a more fulsome way. In the case of this study, the relationship is drawn to housing segregation. I argue that expanding the conceptualization of racial violence is critical for both empirical inquiry and shaping community efforts around redress.

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“…A version of this model is formally laid out in Hsieh et al (2019) and sketched in Rothwell (2019). As applied to the Jim Crow era, this work builds on Parman (2017), andCook, Logan, andParman (2018), who find that residential segregation was much higher in the U.S. South in 1880 and 1940 and that segregation was correlated with worse health outcomes for Black Americans and the probability of being lynched.…”

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Reassessing the Contributions of African American Inventors to the Golden Age of Innovation

Andrews

Rothwell

2020

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During the Industrial Revolution and subsequently, it is widely believed that African Americans contributed disproportionately little to the economic development of the United States, especially in comparison to European Americans and immigrants from Europe. Yet, African Americans lived in entirely different institutional environments than other Americans, particularly in the South under Jim Crow laws. Using a new database that matches inventors to census records, we find that the share of patents invented by Black Americans living in the North matched their share of the U.S. population from 1870 to 1940 and exceeded it in some decades and in some Northern states throughout the period. We find that Black Americans from all regions were responsible for more patents than immigrants from all but two countries (Germany and England). Northern Black Americans patented at rates that exceeded Southern White Americans and were comparable to the highest patenting groups. In total, we estimate that African Americans were the identified inventors of 50,000 patents over the period. Thus, when freed of extreme political oppression, African American demonstrated level of inventiveness that matched the most inventive groups in U.S. history.

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Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching

Cited by 45 publications

References 62 publications

Do Black Politicians Matter?

Do Black Politicians Matter?

Measuring Legacies of Collective Racial Violence

Reassessing the Contributions of African American Inventors to the Golden Age of Innovation

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