1. Introduction
2. A Theoretical-Conceptual Framework of Group Formation and Intergroup Violence
3. From Slavery to Jim Crow: The Historical Context of Lynching
4. Lynching as Collective and Interpersonal Intergroup Violence
5. Lynching and the Making of the Jim Crow Color-line
6. Lynching and the Making of the Solid White South
7. Lynching, Interracial Status Competition, and Social White Identities
8. Lynching, Jim Crow, and Beyond
Methodological Appendix
Biography
Mattias Smångs is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Yale University, and a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University.
In Doing Violence, Making Race Professor Smångs uses nuanced theoretical framing, sophisticated statistical analysis, and a thorough knowledge of the history of the American South to take the study of lynching and racial boundary formation to a higher level. As a result, Doing Violence, Making Race is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the shameful history of southern mob violence and its continuing influence on American society.Stewart E. Tolnay, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
