Lynchings — a list of resources

This list is posted for inclusion in Racial injustice in American history (part 6 of On microaggressions and racial issues, particularly in the lifestyle: A resource for white people.)

It consists of the sources used in The Psychology of Racism in Jim Crow America, a YouTube video that discusses white justifications for lynchings.

TRIGGER WARNING: "The Psychology of Racism" begins with an extremely graphic description of a lynching, and includes a scattering of difficult passages. To skip the opening description, begin watching at 3:33. However, I suggest that every white person should watch this video from the beginning. We absolutely need to hear what happened during a lynching.

• The psychology of genocide, massacres, and extreme violence : why ‘‘normal’’ people come to commit atrocities, by Donald G. Dutton, Praeger Security International, Westport, CT & London, 207. (PDF, 214 pages, available for download.)

• Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, by Kristina DuRocher, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2011. (Chapter-by-chapter summaries are available here. View selected pages here.)

• "The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America," by Jon Hanson and Kathleen Hanson, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, vol. 41, no. 2, Summer 2006, p. 413-480. HeinOnline. (Read it here.)

• A Festival of Violence, An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930, by Stewart E, Tolnay and E.M. Beck, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1995. (Available on Archive.org.)

• The Brute Caricature, a page of the Jim Crow Museum website.

• How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, by Jason Stanley, Random House, NY, 2018. (PDF, 156 pages, available for download.)

• The Roots of Evil, by Ervin Staub, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1989.

• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, London, Penguin Press, 2019.

• Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South, by Steven Hoelscher, Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 93, 2003 - Issue 3, pp. 657-686, published online: 29 Feb. 29, 2008.

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