Making a National Crime: The Transformation of US Lynching Politics 1883-1930
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Seguin, Charles
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
- Abstract
- Between the Post-Civil War Reconstruction era and stretching into the beginning of the Civil Rights era, a dramatic shift occurred in the public representations of lynching. Lynching was originally framed as a form of rough justice and popular sovereignty—a necessary response to the heinous crimes of blacks and slow courts. But, over this period, roughly 1883-1930, lynching came to be understood as a form of brutality, anarchy, and “barbarism”. This dissertation addresses the causes and consequences of the changing meanings of lynching. I argue that lynching was increasingly criticized as lynch mobs victimized people from outside of the usual black Southern victims, and thus expanded the scope of anti-lynching politics.
- Date of publication
- August 2016
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- Baumgartner, Frank
- Kurzman, Charles
- Andrews, Kenneth
- Bail, Christopher
- Caren, Neal
- Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
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- Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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- 2016
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