Lynching to belong : claiming Whiteness through racial violence /

Nevels, Cynthia Skove, 1955-

Lynching to belong : claiming Whiteness through racial violence / Cynthia Skove Nevels. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations, map - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 106 . - Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 106. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index.

The banner county -- A White man's town -- The Italians -- The Irish -- The Bohemians and the Jews.

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Nevels argues that five racially motivated murders of black men in Brazos County, Texas, 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 racial violence to achieve that end.


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White people--Race identity--History.--Texas--Brazos County
European Americans--Race identity--History.--Texas--Brazos County
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Texas--Brazos County
Immigrants--Attitudes--History.--Texas--Brazos County
Racism--History.--Texas--Brazos County
African Americans--Crimes against--History.--Texas--Brazos County
Lynching--History.--Texas--Brazos County
Violence--History.--Texas--Brazos County
Américains d'origine européenne--Identité ethnique--Histoire.--Texas--Brazos
Racisme--Histoire.--Texas--Brazos
Noirs américains--Crimes contre--Histoire.--Texas--Brazos
Lynchage--Histoire.--Texas--Brazos
Violence--Histoire.--Texas--Brazos
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
African Americans--Crimes against.
European Americans--Race identity.
Immigrants--Attitudes.
Immigrants--Social conditions.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Racism.
Violence.
White people--Race identity.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Gewalt
Ethnische Identität
Einwanderer
Soziale Situation


Brazos County (Tex.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
Brazos County (Tex.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Texas--Brazos County.
Texas
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