Global Lynching and Collective Violence : Volume 2: The Americas and Europe

In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth century Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and the transnational links that helped form–and later emanated from–Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel, Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema Santamaría, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda. In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and the transnational links that helped form—and later emanated from—Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late twentieth century. Contributors: Brent M. S. Campney, Amy Chazkel, Stephen P. Frank, Dean J. Kotlowski, Michael J. Pfeifer, Gema Santamaría, Ryan Shaffer, and Hannah Skoda. | Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction / Michael J. Pfeifer 1. Collective Violence and Popular Justice in the Later Middle Ages / Hannah Skoda 2. Unofficial Justice and Community in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 / Stephen P. Frank 3. "A lei de Lynch": Reconsidering the View from Brazil of Lynching in the United States, 1880s–1920s / Amy Chazkel 4. Lynching, Religion, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla / Gema Santamaría 5. "Canadians Are Not Proficient in the Art of Lynching": Mob Violence, Social Regulation, and National Identity / Brent M. S. Campney 6. "Negro and White Unite": The Communist Party's Campaign against Lynching in Indiana and Maryland, 1930-1933 / Dean J. Kotlowski 7. Bonded in Hate: The Violent Development of American Skinhead Culture / Ryan Shaffer Contributors Index |" Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."—Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South "This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights | Michael J. Pfeifer is a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 and The Roots of Rough Justice , and editor of Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South and Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East . "Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its history of vigilante necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, state-sponsored collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith."--Page 4 of cover Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction / Michael J. Pfeifer 12 1. Collective Violence and Popular Justice in the Later Middle Ages / Hannah Skoda 23 2. Unofficial Justice and Community in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 / Stephen P. Frank 45 3. “A lei de Lynch”: Reconsidering the View from Brazil of Lynching in the United States, 1880s–1920s / Amy Chazkel 79 4. Lynching, Religion, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla / Gema Santamaría 96 5. “Canadians Are Not Proficient in the Art of Lynching”: Mob Violence, Social Regulation, and National Identity / Brent M. S. Campney 126 6. “Negro and White Unite”: The Communist Party’s Campaign against Lynching in Indiana and Maryland, 1930-1933 / Dean J. Kotlowski 157 7. Bonded in Hate: The Violent Development of American Skinhead Culture / Ryan Shaffer 197 Contributors 220 Index 224 The word __lynching__ is most likely American in origin, but the practice of lynching, defined by scholars as extralegal group assault and/or murder motivated by social control concerns, can be found in many global cultures and eras. This collection of essays looks at lynching and related varieties of collective violence, such as vigilantism and rioting, across world cultures. Analyzing lynching and collective violence in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the chapters highlight both the presence of mob violence in a number of cultures and eras and the particularity of its occurrence in certain cultural and historical contexts. The word lynching is most likely American in origin, but the practice of lynching, defined by scholars as extralegal group assault and/or murder motivated by social control concerns, can be found in many global cultures and eras. This collection of essays looks at lynching and related varieties of collective violence, such as vigilantism and rioting, across world cultures. Analyzing lynching and collective violence in the Americas and Europe, the chapters highlight both the presence of mob violence in a number of cultures and eras and the particularity of its occurrence in certain cultural and historical contexts