Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South

 In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This collection of essays by prominent and rising scholars fills this gap by illuminating the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The volume adds to a more comprehensive history of American lynching and will be of interest to all readers interested in the history of violence across the varied regions of the United States. Contributors are Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.

Table of Contents:
CoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Michael J. PfeiferPart I. The West1. "Who Dares to Style This Female a Woman?": Lynching, Gender, and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West2. The Popular Sources of Political Authority in 1856 San Francisco: Lynching, Vigilance, and the Difference between Politics and Constitutionalism3. "Light Is Bursting upon the World!": White Supremacy and Racist Violence against Blacks in Reconstruction Kansas4. The Rise and Fall of Mob Violence against Mexicans in Arizona, 1859–1915 William D. Carrigan5. Making Utah History: Press Coverage of the Robert Marshall Lynching, June 1925 Kimberley MangunPart II. The Midwest6. "The cry of the Negro should not be remember the Maine, but remember the hanging of Bush": African American Responses to Lynching in Decatur, Illinois, 18937. Race, Sex, and Riot: The Springfield, Ohio, Race Riots of 1904 and 1906 and the Sources of Antiblack Violence in the Lower Midwest8. Lynching in Late-Nineteenth-Century Michigan Michael J. PfeiferPart III. The Northeast9. "They Lynched Jim Cullen": Story and Myth on the Northern Maine Frontier Dena Lynn Winslow10. The "Delaware Horror": Two Ministers, a Lynching, and the Crisis of Democracy Dennis B. DowneyAppendix: Lynchings in the Northeast, Midwest, and WestContributorsIndex