I found a book called lynching beyond Dixie.. And I am going to get it.. But here is a Harvard review until then.. Moreover, the reasons that motivated the lynchings were similar for the two groups—acting “uppity,” taking away jobs, making advances toward a white woman, cheating at cards, practicing “witchcraft,” and refusing to leave land that Anglos coveted... academic mainstream may have come across evidence of the practice but minimized it, instead focusing overwhelmingly on black lynching and slavery...These natives are in need of the civilizing force of the invading power, which arrives in the form of superior administration, better use of the land and its resources, and, of course, a higher form of justice....Such a child could easily grow up believing that lynching was largely a problem for blacks, that civil rights and the struggle for equal dig- nity were largely black affairs, and that racism and stereotypes maligning Spanish-speaking people were simply cases of bad luck or tasteless humor unconnected with a history of colonialism and oppression. harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/297-312.pdf
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