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Paper 8 — Vigilantes, Jim Crow, and the Color Line: Repression and Black Survival, 1880s–1930s

Introduction The previous paper reconsidered the cigar workers’ militancy and its costs. This one turns to the force that met that militancy—the employer-backed repression and vigilante violence that ran through Tampa’s history—and to the broader system of racial control, Jim … Continue reading

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On Systemic Anti-White Classification And Reporting Bias

Possibility: Could Underrecognition Indicate Systemic Bias Against Whites? It is theoretically possible that the underrecognition of Black-on-White crime as racially motivated reflects a systemic bias, defined as institutional or cultural practices that consistently disadvantage one group (in this case, Whites). … Continue reading

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