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Author Nevels, Cynthia Skove, 1955-

Title Lynching to belong : claiming Whiteness through racial violence / Cynthia Skove Nevels
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations, map
Series 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
Contents The banner county -- A White man's town -- The Italians -- The Irish -- The Bohemians and the Jews
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject White people -- Race identity -- Texas -- Brazos County -- History
European Americans -- Race identity -- Texas -- Brazos County -- History
Immigrants -- Texas -- Brazos County -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Texas -- Brazos County -- Attitudes -- History
Racism -- Texas -- Brazos County -- History
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Texas -- Brazos County -- History
Lynching -- Texas -- Brazos County -- History
Violence -- Texas -- Brazos County -- History
European Americans -- Texas -- Brazos County -- Ethnic identity -- History
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
SUBJECT Brazos County (Tex.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Brazos County (Tex.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Texas -- Brazos County
Texas
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Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007007624
ISBN 9781603444583
1603444580
1299053262
9781299053267