Keyword

lynching

Description: Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment, often involving killing, carried out by a group without lawful trial or authority.

Primary topic: Race, History, and American Society (39%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q486775

OpenAlex ID: keywords/lynching

Violence and the Sacred

1979 · RENÉ GIRARD · Duke University Press eBooks · 2,049

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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917

2017 · Siegel, Mona L · The SHAFR Guide Online · 848

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

2017 · The SHAFR Guide Online · 598

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

1999 · James Allen · 564

Romance and the "yellow peril": race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction

1994 · Choice Reviews Online · 478

Too heavy a load: black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994

1999 · Choice Reviews Online · 473

Narrative, Event-Structure Analysis, and Causal Interpretation in Historical Sociology

1993 · Larry J. Griffin · American Journal of Sociology · 448

Rituals Of Blood: Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries

1998 · Orlando Patterson · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 411

Southern horrors: women and the politics of rape and lynching

2010 · Feimster, Crystal Nicole 1972- · Choice Reviews Online · 407

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South.

1983 · Jack P. Maddex, Bertram Wyatt-Brown · The Journal of Southern History · 407

With malice toward none and charity for some: Ingroup favoritism enables discrimination.

2014 · Anthony G. Greenwald, Thomas F. Pettigrew · American Psychologist · 401

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The Cross and the Lynching Tree

2026 · Cone, James H. · 386

Frederick Douglass : selected speeches and writings

1999 · Frederick Douglass, Philip S. Foner, et al. · 383

Minor Studies of Aggression: VI. Correlation of Lynchings with Economic Indices

1940 · Carl Iver Hovland, Robert R. Sears · The Journal of Psychology · 364

The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

2003 · Franklin E Zimring · 357

American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender.

1997 · Michael Berube, Robyn Wiegman · African American Review · 330

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

2015 · Ida B. Wells · 314

A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930.

1996 · Robert L. Zangrando, Stewart E. Tolnay, et al. · The American Historical Review · 308

At the hands of persons unknown: the lynching of black America

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 304

Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals.

1985 · Hammet Worthington-Smith, Trudier Harris · Black American Literature Forum · 302

Embodying Black Experience

2010 · Harvey Young · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 299

From lynching to gay bashing: The elusive connection between economic conditions and hate crime.

1998 · Donald P. Green, Jack Glaser, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 279

To stand and fight: the struggle for civil rights in postwar New York City

2004 · Choice Reviews Online · 269

A festival of violence: an analysis of southern lynchings, 1882-1930

1995 · Choice Reviews Online · 265

2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 263

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