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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23813 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23813 |
Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching | |
Lisa D. Cook; Trevon D. Logan; John M. Parman | |
发表日期 | 2017-09-18 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The literature on ethnic fractionalization and conflict has not been extended to the American past. In particular, the empirical relationship between racial residential segregation and lynching is unknown. The existing economic, social, and political theories of lynching contain hypotheses about the relationship between racial segregation and racial violence, consistent with theories of social conflict. Since Southern lynching occurred in rural and urban areas, traditional urban measures of racial segregation cannot be used to estimate the relationship. We use a newly developed household-level measure of residential segregation (Logan and Parman 2017), which can distinguish between racial homogeneity of a location and the tendency to racially segregate, to estimate the correlation between racial segregation and lynching in the southern counties of the United States. We find that conditional on racial composition, racially segregated counties were much more likely to experience lynchings. Consistent with the hypothesis that segregation is related to interracial violence, we find that segregation is highly correlated with African American lynching, but uncorrelated with white lynching. These results extend the analysis of racial/ethnic conflict into the past and show that the effects of social interactions and interracial proximity in rural areas are as important as those in urban areas. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Labor and Health History |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23813 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581487 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lisa D. Cook,Trevon D. Logan,John M. Parman. Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching. 2017. |
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