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In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J.
Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and
other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon
responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's
European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval
people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal
institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on
Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced
Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in
religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century
Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of
racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's
Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and
the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated
from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late
twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel,
Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema
Santamaria, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda.
We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the
pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites
orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while
engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by
being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans
forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through
armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights
organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on
cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence,
Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to
assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted
in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern
phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs,
automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge
our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites,
law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence,
and the details of African American resistance.
We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the
pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites
orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while
engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by
being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans
forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through
armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights
organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on
cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence,
Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to
assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted
in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern
phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs,
automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge
our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites,
law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence,
and the details of African American resistance.
Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence
existed everywhere. Brent Campney explodes the notion of the
Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of
assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in
post "Civil War Kansas." Campney's capacious definition of
white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational
demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but
acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive
routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from
towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such
methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white
supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence
also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats.
African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch
mobs while using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the
groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could
fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion.
Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental
narratives on mob action, race relations, African American
resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.
In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J.
Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and
other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon
responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's
European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval
people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal
institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on
Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced
Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in
religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century
Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of
racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's
Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and
the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated
from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late
twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel,
Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema
Santamaria, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda.
Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence
existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the
Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of
assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in
post-Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of
white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational
demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but
acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive
routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from
towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such
methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white
supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence
also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats.
African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch
mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the
groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could
fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion.
Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental
narratives on mob action, race relations, African American
resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.
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