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Lynching & Racial Violence H-Afro-Am Bibliography - Lynching & Racial Violence Page published by Shawn Leigh Alexander on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 A working bibliography of lynching and racial violence (Last Updated May 10, 2016) Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States 1889-1919, (New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919). Ann Alexander, “Like an Evil Wind: The Roanoke Riot of 1893 and the Lynching of Thomas Smith,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 100 (1992): 173-206. Shawn Leigh Alexander, “Vengeance without Justice, Injustice without Retribution: The Afro- American Council's Struggle against Racial Violence,”Great Plains Quarterly 27, no. 2 (2007): 117-33. Sandy Alexandre, The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012). Jessie Daniel Ames, “Can Newspapers Harmonize Their Editorial Policy on Lynching and Their News Stories on Lynching?,” Reprinted in Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association Bulletin 65 (1936). Devery S. Anderson, Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015). Dora Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (New Brunswick, N.J. ;: London : Rutgers University Press, 2004). Julie Buckner Armstrong, Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011). Bruce E. Baker, “Lynch Law Reveresed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate over Lynching in the 1880s,” American Nineteenth Century History 6, no. 3 (2005): 273-93. ———, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 (London; New York: Continuum, 2008). Janice Barrow, Hittlinger, “Lynching in the Mid-Atlantic, 1882-1940,”American Nineteenth Century History 6, no. 3 (2005): 241-71. E. M. Beck, and E. Tolnay Stewart, “The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Citation: Shawn Leigh Alexander. Bibliography - Lynching & Racial Violence. H-Afro-Am. 05-10-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/2606/pages/124535/bibliography-lynching-racial-violence Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Afro-Am Cotton and the Lynching of Blacks, 1882-1930,”American Sociological Review 55, no. 4 (1990): 526-39. Gail Bederman, “Civilization,’ the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells’s Antilynching Campaign, 1892–1894,” Radical History Review 52 (1991): 5-30. Manfred Berg, Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011). Patricia Bernstein, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP, 1st ed., Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University; No. 101 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005). L. J. Brown, “Philosophy of Lynching,” The Voice of the Negro 1, no. 11 (1904): 555-59. Mary Jane Brown, Eradicating This Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940, Studies in African American History and Culture (New York: Garland Pub., 2000). John E. Bruce, The Blood Red Record (Albany: Argus Company, 1900). W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “To Howl Loudly: John Mitchell and the Campaign against Lynching,” Canadian Review of American Studies 22 (1991): 325-42. ———, “Mob Violence: North and South, 1865-1940,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 75 (1991): 748-70. ———, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993). ———, “Race, Class, and Southern Racial Violence,” in Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States, ed. Norbert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 137-54. ———, “Conclusion: Reflections on Lynching Scholarship,”American Nineteenth Century History 6, no. 3 (2005): 401-14. Richard Allan Buckelew, “Racial Violence in Arkansas: Lynchings and Mob Rule, 1860--1930” (University of Arkansas, 1999). Louis E. Burnham, and Freedom Associates., Behind the Lynching of Emmett Louis Till (New York: Freedom Associates, 1955). Adam Burns, “Without Due Process: Albert E. Pillsbury and the Hoar Anti-Lynching Bill,” American Nineteenth Century History 11, no. 2 (2010): 233-52. Dominic J. Capeci, Jr., and Jack C. Knight, “Reckoning with Violence: W. E. B. Du Bois and the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot,” Journal of Southern History 62, no. 4 (1996): 727. Citation: Shawn Leigh Alexander. Bibliography - Lynching & Racial Violence. H-Afro-Am. 05-10-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/2606/pages/124535/bibliography-lynching-racial-violence Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-Afro-Am William D. Carrigan, The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004). ———, “Lynching Reconsidered: New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence,” American Nineteenth Century History 6, no. 3 (2005): 221-25. ———, ed. Lynching Reconsidered: New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence (New York: Routledge, 2007), Pages. Edouardo Casanover, ”"Southern Lynchings" [Letter to the Editor],”Charlotte Daily Observer, June 17, 1899. George W. Chamlee, “Is Lynching Ever Defensible?,” Forum (1927). George T. Chapman, ”Murder Not Lynching,” New York Times, April 2, 1899 1899, 25. Claude Andrew Clegg, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2010). James L. Crouthamel, “The Springfield Race Riot of 1908,”Journal of Negro History 45 (1960): 164-81. Charles Crowe, “Racial Massacre in Atlanta, September 22, 1906,” Journal of Negro History 54 (1969). Jane Dailey, “Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South: Manners and Massacres in Danville, Virginia,” Journal of Southern History 63, no. 3 (1997): 553-90. Simone W. Davis, “The 'Weak Race' and the Winchester: Political Voices in Pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett,” Legacy 12 (1995): 77-89. Thomas Dixon, and John David Smith, The Flaming Sword (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005). Frederick Douglass, “Lynching Black People Because They Are Black,” Christian Educator 5, no. 3 (1894): 95-108. Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (New York: Random House, 2002). Kristina DuRocher, Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, New Directions in Southern History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011). Mark Ellis, “Joel Spingarn's 'Constructive Programme' and the Wartime Antilynching Bill of 1918,” Journal of Policy History 4, no. 2 (1992): 134-61. Crystal Nicole Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009). Citation: Shawn Leigh Alexander. Bibliography - Lynching & Racial Violence. H-Afro-Am. 05-10-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/2606/pages/124535/bibliography-lynching-racial-violence Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 3 H-Afro-Am Paul Finkelman, Lynching, Racial Violence, and Law (New York: Garland, 1992). Terence Finnegan, “Lynching and Political Power in Mississippi and South Carolina,” in Under Sentence of Death: Essays on Lynching in the South, ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 189-218. Norbert Finzsch, and Dietmar Schirmer, eds., Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States (New York Cambridge University Press, 1998). T. Thomas Fortune, “Is the White South Civilized?,”AME Zion Quarterly Review 1, no. 4 (1891): 283-89. ———, “Mob Law in the South,” Independent 49, no. 2537 (1897): 900-01. ———, ”Editorial: Lynching Statistics,” Boston Transcript, June, 19 1899, 14. ———, ”Mob Violence in the South: Its Effect Upon the Temper of Thinking Afro-Americans,” New York Sun, May 2, 1899. ———, ”Lynching Statistics: "The Usual Crime" Subterfuge Used as a Shield to Excuse Murder,” New York Sun, June 4, 1899. ———, ”The Lynching of Sam Hose,” New York Sun, June 20, 1899. Ute Frevert, “The Taming of the Noble Ruffian: Male Violence and Dueling in Early Modern and Modern Germany,” in Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America, ed. Pieter Spierenburg (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998), 37-63. David A. Gerber, “Lynching and Law and Order: Origins and Passage of the Ohio Anti- Lynching Law of 1894,” Ohio History 83, no. 1 (1974): 33-50. Paula Giddings, Ida: A Sword among Lions (New York: Amistad, 2008). David F. Godshalk, “William J. Northen's Public and Personal Struggles against Lynching,” in Jumpin' Jim Crow, ed. Jane Dailey, Gilmore Glenda Elizabeth and Simon Bryant (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 140-61. Jacqueline Denise Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West: 1850–1935 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). Donald L. Grant, The Anti-Lynching Movement: 1883-1932 (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1975). Richard T. Greener, ”Professor Greener Upon the Situation: A Scholar and a Lawyer Speaks -- Jim Crow Cars and Lynchings, Etcetera,” Voice of Missions 1896, 3. Citation: Shawn Leigh Alexander. Bibliography - Lynching & Racial Violence. H-Afro-Am. 05-10-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/2606/pages/124535/bibliography-lynching-racial-violence
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