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Anti-Chinese Mob Violence and the Legacy of Lynching Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2020
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- Special Forum: Lynching in the New South A Quarter of a Century Later
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- The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 157 - 164
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- © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)
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1 For examples of scholarly efforts to collect and catalog lynching incidents and their victims, see Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993)Google Scholar; Leonard, Stephen J., Lynching in Colorado,1859–1919 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002)Google Scholar; Pfeifer, Michael J., Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004)Google Scholar; Carrigan, William D., The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004)Google Scholar; Gonzales-Day, Ken, Lynching in the West, 1850-1935 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006)Google Scholar; Pfeifer, Michael J., The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011)Google Scholar; Pfeifer, Michael J., ed., Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Carrigan, William D. and Webb, Clive, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).Google Scholar
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5 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 9–10.
6 Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go, 19.
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26 Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go, 30–31.
27 Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go, 94–95.
28 Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go, 235–36.
29 Brundage, Lynching in the New South, 2–3.
30 Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go, 114–15.
31 Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go, 93.