The Legacy of Black Lynching and Contemporary Segregation in the South

摘要: Wacquant (2001) and others have argued that social control efforts directed at racial ethnic minorities frequently shift institutional form become more nuanced as societies modernize, even the underlying function persists. This study examines connection between southern lynching housing segregation. We argue legal, political, demographic changes in south made dysfunctional a means of control. Among other mechanisms, modern segregation helped serve replacement. test this proposition by relating historical black rates to recent levels MSAs. find an MSA’s rate is positively significantly linked current after accounting for standard determinants Thus, does not just occur generally throughout south, but follows very particular pattern based on past rates. Our findings add growing literature legacy lynching, such studies examining contemporaneous variation support use capital punishment.