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A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930
Stewart E Tolnay
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Paperback. A statistical study of lynching in ten southern states which shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. This book tests explanations of the causes of lynching, using US Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent
practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Among their surprising findings: lynching responded to fluctuations in the price of cotton, decreasing in frequency when prices rose and increasing when they fell.
This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent
practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Among their surprising findings: lynching responded to fluctuations in the price of cotton, decreasing in frequency when prices rose and increasing when they fell.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252064135
SKU
V9780252064135
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99-1
About Stewart E Tolnay
Stewart E. Tolnay, a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the State University of New York at Albany, is coeditor of The Changing American Family: Sociological and Demographic Perspectives.E.M. Beck, professor and head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia, is coauthor of Industrial Invasion of Nonmetropolitan America. ... Read more
Reviews for A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930
Outstanding Book from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.