Book of Donmon Teith

What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal gro

The U.S. is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching - that is, murder endorsed by the community - may be a key to understanding Ameri

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

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways tha

In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the boo