The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Cotton and the Lynching of Blacks, 1882-1930

Beck, E. M.; Tolnay, Stewart E.

doi:10.2307/2095805

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“…Reed 1972;Brown and Fuguitt 1972;Erisbie and Neidert 1977;Beck and Tolnay 1990), a number of studies of gender composition have also yielded supportive findings. For example, using data from six departments in a federal agency.…”

Section: Competition Theorymentioning

confidence: 93%

The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover

Tolbert¹,

Simons²,

Andrews³

et al. 1995

ILR Review

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Using data collected from a sample of 50 academic departments over the years 1977–88, the authors test several hypotheses about the effects of departmental gender composition on faculty turnover. They find that as the proportion of women in a department grew, turnover among women also increased, confirming the prediction that increases in the relative size of a minority will result in increased intergroup competition and conflict. The evidence also suggests, however, that when the proportion of female faculty reached a threshold of about 35–40%, turnover among women began to decline. The proportion of women had a negligible or negative impact on turnover among male faculty. The authors discuss the implications of this research for the implementation of affirmative action policies.

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Section: Competition Theorymentioning

confidence: 93%

The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover

Tolbert¹,

Simons²,

Andrews³

et al. 1995

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“…Their explicit resistance to exploitation, racism and humiliation is also rooted in the historical migration experience of African Americans to San Francisco. All the African Americans in our sample (and the majority of middle-aged African Americans in San Francisco) are the first generation born from rural immigrants from east Texas and Louisiana, a region with some of the Deep South's highest rates of per capita lynching in the 1910s and 1920s (Beck and Tolnay, 1990;Broussard, 1993). They were fleeing violent racism, plantation labor, or sharecropping debt peonage and came to work in San Francisco during the Second World War.…”

Section: The Generative Forces Of Habitusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intimate apartheid

Schonberg

2007

Ethnography

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Ten years of participant-observation fieldwork and photography among a multi-ethnic social network of homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers in California reveal hierarchical interpersonal relations between African Americans, whites and Latinos despite the fact that they all share a physical addiction to heroin and live in indigent poverty in the same encampments. Focusing on tensions between blacks and whites, we develop the concept of 'ethnicized habitus' to understand how divisions drawn on the basis of skin color are enforced through everyday interaction to produce 'intimate apartheid' in the context of physical proximity and shared destitution. Specifically, we examine how two components of ethnic habitus are generated. One is a simple technique of the body, a preference for intravenous versus intramuscular or subcutaneous heroin injection. The second revolves around income-generation strategies and is more obviously related to external power constraints. Both these components fit into a larger constellation of ethnic distinction rooted in historically entrenched political, economic and ideological forces. An understanding of the generative forces of the ethnic dimensions of habitus allows us to recognize how macro-power relations produce intimate desires and ways of being that become inscribed on individual bodies and routinized in behavior. These distinctions are, for the most part, interpreted as natural attributes of genetics and culture by many people in the United States, justifying a racialized moral hierarchy. KeywordsUnited States; urban poverty; crack; substance abuse; injection drug use At first sight, street corners where homeless heroin addicts congregate in San Francisco look like a whirlwind of multicultural diversity. Indeed, one might think that physical and psychological addiction to the point of indigence would reduce humans to some sort of common -if not solidary -essence. The decade that we have spent conducting participant-observation research among a social network of approximately two dozen homeless heroin injectors who also smoke crack and drink alcohol, however, reveals deep divisions across ethnic lines that are interpreted racially. The group of homeless we have been studying is composed of African American, Latino, and white men and women in advanced middle age. They represent the NIH Public Access

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“…Beck and Tolnay 1990;Bonacich 1972;Olzak 1990Olzak , 1992. 3 Others focus on economic inequality (e.g.…”

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The Conditional Effects of Race and Politics on Social Control

Stucky

2011

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Numerous studies of the determinants of formal social control of Blacks focus on racial threat arguments, which contain implicit or explicit political elements. Using insights from research on politics and social control more generally, this article argues that the relationship between variation in the racial composition of a city and social control of minorities will be conditional on characteristics of the local political system. Hypotheses are tested using pooled cross-sectional time-series data on 100 large U.S. cities in 1970, 1980, and 1990. Contrary to expectations, Black violent crime arrest rates are curvilinearly negatively associated with larger percentages of Black residents. As predicted, the relationship between the percentage of Black residents and Black violent crime arrest rates is conditional on city political system characteristics (elected mayors, district council elections, and partisan ballots), the race of the mayor, and the percentage of city council members who are Black.

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The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Cotton and the Lynching of Blacks, 1882-1930

Cited by 187 publications

References 24 publications

The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover

The Effects of Gender Composition in Academic Departments on Faculty Turnover

Intimate apartheid

The Conditional Effects of Race and Politics on Social Control

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