The Real Victim of Lynch Law Is the Government
American Protestant Anti-Lynching Advocacy and the Making of Law and Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4313494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Griffith (0000-0002-9597-3045, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 116 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10020116 |
| OpenAlex | W2913196116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines American Protestant anti-lynching advocacy in the early twentieth century. In contrast to African American Protestants, who framed their anti-lynching efforts in ways that foregrounded the problem of racism and black experiences of suffering, white mainline Protestant critiques of lynching regularly downplayed race and framed the crime in terms of its threat to American civilization and national law and order. This article connects these latter concerns to the national war on crime of the 1930s and 40s and the early history of the modern carceral state
Civilization · Criminology · Political science · Protestantism · Racism · Sociology · American History and Culture · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Their Sisters' Keepers
The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Prison Religion
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
It Is His First Offense. We Might As Well Let Him Go
Less Crime, More Punishment
For Human Rights Abroad, against Jim Crow at Home
Racial Violence and Social Reform-Origins of the Atlanta Riot of 1906
The Protestant Churches and Lynching, 1919-1939
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |