Boundary Spillover and the Politics of Racial Violence: The Transatlantic Response to American Lynching 1891-1903
Throughout the 1880s lynching in the American South attracted little condemnation by the national newspapers or political elites. In 1891 a New Orleans mob lynched eleven Italian nationals, many of them Italian citizens, and set into motion the internationalization of American lynching as a social and political problem. We trace how this event, and other similar events, spread anti-lynching politics to Italy and Great Britain, and thus eventually contributed to domestic political opposition to lynching. We conclude with discussion of a theory on how repression backfire emerges based on the spread of repression to members of less marginalized social categories.
Date:
29 October 2018, 12:45 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Charles Seguin (Pennsylvania State University)
Organising department:
Department of Sociology
Organisers:
Colin Mills (University of Oxford),
Man Yee Kan (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
jane.greig@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Jane Greig
