14/ RECENSIONE: Matthias SMÅNGS, Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882-1930, New York, Routledge, 2017, VII + 169 pp.
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 43, 3|2020
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Matthias SMÅNGS, Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882-1930, New York, Routledge, 2017, VII + 169 pp.
Anyone who is concerned with the history of African Americans in the United States, undeniably is aware of the ignominy of the “Lynching Era”, perpetrated by the white supremacists after the abolition of slavery in the South. Mattias Smångs – specialized in race and racial violence in the United States – uses strong analytical and statistical evidence to demonstrate the emerging process of oppression. His book, Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882-1930, is a great addition to the international literature on the somber history of the Southern States of America.
Even though the lynching practices have been explored by numerous scholars, Doing Violence, Making Race provides additional insights on the interdependence between the reoccurring lynching era and the establishment of the Jim Crow’s system.
In the introduction, the author opens with a historical background to deeply explore his analysis and conclusions. Smångs mentions the relevance of the decisive socio-economic and political events of… […]
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Giovanni Battista CORVINO is Ph.D. Fellow in Global History of Empires at Turin University – joint doctoral program with the Higher School of Economics (Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). He was Visiting Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (Netherlands, 2019). Recently, he was Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University – Department of African American Studies, where he worked on the evolution of the concept of civil and human rights in the United States through the lynching of African Americans (1940-1960).
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CORVINO, Giovanni Battista, «RECENSIONE: Matthias SMÅNGS, Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882-1930, New York, Routledge, 2017, VII + 169 pp.», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 43, 3|2020
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2020/10/29/corvino_numero_43/>
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«RECENSIONE: Matthias SMÅNGS, Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882-1930, New York, Routledge, 2017, VII + 169 pp.» by Giovanni Battista Corvino / Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione – Condividi allo stesso modo 3.0 Unported.
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