[lbo-talk] white-on-white violence

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 21 10:40:47 PDT 2010


I asked Pauline Grosjean, author of the paper on the Scots-Irish and the culture of honor, for her thoughts on how the racial violence of the South - the Klan, lynching - fit in with her work. Her answer:


> In my view and that of many historians such as Randolph Roth, the culture of honor mainly explains white intraracial homicide. Many homicides were due to fights over status and, according to Roth, it was supremacy over whites than other whites were after. It would only apply to inter racial violence in cases where the whites would feel their status threatened by blacks. Which could certainly be relevant in some cases (political upheavals, economic crises and competition for jobs), but that is all I can say at this point.

Doug



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