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State Studies and the Whiteness of White-on-White Lynching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2020

Brent M. S. Campney
Brent M. S. Campney*
Affiliation:
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: brent.campney@utrgv.edu
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Keywords

white-on-white lynchingwhitenesshistoriographythe Westthe South
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Special Forum: Lynching in the New South A Quarter of a Century Later
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 104 - 113
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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Notes

1 Jacket blurb by Bartley, Numan V., from Fitzhugh Brundage, W., Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993).Google Scholar

2 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 8.

3 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 13.

4 Wright, George C., Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865–1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and ‘Legal Lynchings’ (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1990 [reprint: 1996]).Google Scholar A partial listing of geographically bounded studies includes Guy, Lancaster, Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014); Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West, 1850–1935 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006); Paul Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006); John Hammond Moore, Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880–1920 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006); Brent M.S. Campney, Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019); Beth Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Other such state and area studies are addressed below.Google Scholar

5 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 143.

6 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 191.

7 For the Baker quote, see https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/64pct8rc9780252037467.html

8 Jacket blurb by Brundage, Fitzhugh, from Pfeifer, Michael J., Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).Google Scholar

9 Pfeifer, Rough Justice, 3, 7.

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13 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 1.

14 Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, “Introduction,” in Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South, ed. Brundage, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 3, 4.Google Scholar

15 See Pfeifer, Michael J., The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011), 32; Pfeifer, The Roots of Rough Justice, 85.Google Scholar

16 Pfeifer, The Roots of Rough Justice, 51.

17 Pfeifer, The Roots of Rough Justice, 32. Pfeifer also writes that Black-on-Black lynchings were “nonracial.” See Roots, 85. For an alternative view, see Brent M. S. Campney, “Race Always Mattered: Black-on-Black Mob Violence and Inter-Racial Relations in Kansas,” American Nineteenth Century History 16:1 (Apr. 2015): 35–57.

18 See Pfeifer, The Roots of Rough Justice, 42, 67.

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38 Campney, This Is Not Dixie, 1.

39 All of this information derives from the author’s work in progress.

40 Campney, This Is Not Dixie, 52, 53. For a listing of anti-Black lynchings in Kansas, see Campney, This Is Not Dixie, Appendix 1, 220–38.