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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Mob Violence"”.
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Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882-1938
… It highlights the pervasiveness of lynch mob violence, the failure of local, state, and federal governments to prevent lynching and how these factors combined to shape the development of black grassroots protest in the Delta region. As such, this dissertation traces how Delta blacks …
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Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882--1938
… as primarily passive victims of white mob violence. It moves beyond histories of black anti-lynching protest that have primarily focused on prominent black spokespersons and national organizations that lobbied for state and federal anti-lynching legislation. In contrast, it demonstrates …
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Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses
… contains three parts: Whose Side Are You On? : Mob Violence and Collective Action through the Eyes of Revolutionary America Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses in the 21st Century Applications of New Knowledge: Student-Centered Resources Focusing on …
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Producing America's Enemies and the Contested Rhetorics of Nationhood in the United States, 1775--1815
… the American Revolution was won, the types of mob violence and citizen participation that brought victory in the war were no longer desirable. Hence, this dissertation investigates how the radical democracy of the Revolutionary War was tamed in the founding years of the United States. I …
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A Place to Call Home: A Study of the Self-Segregated Community of Tatums, Oklahoma, 1894-1970
… self-segregation created. Despite the widespread violence of the Klan, the residents of the HBTs were not the targets of lynching or mob violence. During the years after World War II, Tatums residents enjoyed the greatest prosperity. The final chapter looks at the battle Tatums' residents fought …
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The Discursive Commons: The Establishment, "Outside Agitators," And "Communist Subversives" In Gadsden's Depression-Era Political Environment
… were used by the establishment to incite violence against United Rubber Workers union organizers who came to Gadsden to enlist members in the 1930s and early 1940s. It is my contention that these discursive formations had affective power over the people who committed acts of violence …
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Reflections on Cultural Origins: The Visual Landscape of The Red Badge of Courage
… instances of mechanical encroachment and social violence, I attempt to trace this pivotal transformation in public opinion to its roots in the popular press, particularly the highly mediated portrayals of war disseminated during this period and the voyeurism and spectatorship these violent and …
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The lost revolution : capitalism, democracy and black citizenship in early twentieth-century America's biggest race conflicts
… 1921. All three riots involved armed, organized mobs of hundreds to thousands of whites fully mobilized against armed black communities that were resolute in the defense of their lives, property and rights as citizens. The three riots were additionally notable for the character of the black …
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Tradition And Satisfaction: The Mob And Lynching In The Georgian Cotton Belt, 1890-1899
… lynching events were not always random acts of violence committed by lawless bands of racist, drunken, and ignorant, mobs. Lynching events were the reactions of a middle-class white male population who faced existential fear due to their perceived diminishing status in a sociocultural dominance …