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Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness Through Racial Violence

by Cynthia Skove Nevels
Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness Through Racial Violence

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ISBN13: 9781585445899
ISBN10: 1585445894



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Thousands of black men died violently at the hands of mobs in the postand#150;Civil War South. But in Brazos County, Texas, argues Cynthia Nevels, five such deaths in particular point to an emerging social phenomenon of the time: the desire of newly arrived European immigrants to assert their place in society, and the use of racially motivated violence to achieve that end.

Driven by economics and the forces of history, the Italian, Irish, and Czech immigrants to this rich agricultural region were faced with the necessity of figuring out where they fit in a culture that had essentially two categories: white and black. In many ways, the newcomers realized, they belonged in neither position.

In the end, they found ways to resolve the ambiguity by taking advantage of and sometimes participating directly in the Southand#8217;s most brutal form of racial domination. For each of the immigrant groups caught up in the violence, the deaths of black men helped to establish racial identity and to bestow the all-important privileges of whiteness.

This compelling and superbly written study will appeal to students and scholars of social and racial history, both regional and national.

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and#8220;Cynthia Skove Nevels has provided a valuable addition to the literature by concentrating on five lynchings that occurred around the turn of the last century in Brazos County . . . Lynching to Belong is concisely written and meticulously researched.and#8221;--Gary Borders

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"This study is a valuable contribution to our understanding of how such ideas shaped Texas and the nation."-Great Plains Quarterly

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CYNTHIA SKOVE NEVELS is a history instructor at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. She is a member of the Texas State Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. This is her first book.

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ISBN:
9781585445899
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
10/04/2007
Publisher:
Texas A&M University Press
Series info:
Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Hardcover)
Language:
English
Pages:
189
Height:
.87IN
Width:
6.46IN
LCCN:
2007007624
Series Number:
106
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Series Volume:
106
UPC Code:
4294967295
Author:
Cynthia Skove Nevels
Subject:
History
Subject:
Immigrants
Subject:
Brazos County (Tex.) - Race relations -
Subject:
World History-General

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