Lynching of Persons of Mexican Origin in America In the article “The Lynching of Persons of Mexican Origin or Descent in the United States, 1848 to 1928” by Carrigan and Webb, the authors set out to provide a realistic figure on the exact Continue Reading...
A change of leadership and divisive social forces might pressure such hatreds into re-erupting, but these hatreds are still historical 'products.' A balance between history and psychology is needed to fully understand why mass political atrocities Continue Reading...
Nomothetic Study in Psychology and Social Science Data In contrast to a social scientist doing an ideographic study, where one case in is studied, a nomothetic approach is to take a number of similar cases and to compare them. This particular resear Continue Reading...
Lynching in Virginia The history of lynching in the state of Virginia is still surrounded by many misconceptions. Even though is has been decades since the last of the official lynchings took place, it is still difficult to find reliable and accurat Continue Reading...
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America, Laura Wexler paints a disturbing and convincing portrait of race in America. Her detached point-of-view allows the reader to become personally involved in the story, and creates a powerful feeli Continue Reading...
Racial Discrimination and the Death Penalty The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that at the end of the year 2000 that there was 1,381,892 total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of federal or state Continue Reading...
Injustice anywhere," King went on, "is a threat to justice everywhere." As to the social and racial injustices King is speaking of, a bit of background into conditions in the South - and specifically, in Alabama - is worthy of some space in this pa Continue Reading...
The burglar is an intruder and might threaten the lives of the homeowner and the homeowner's family, so it is right and proper that someone try to defend their home, and the burglar must suffer the consequences. The irony is, if Sweet awoke and foun Continue Reading...
Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or JFK, served the President of the United States for less than a single full term in the early 1960s after serving in Congress for several terms before this. He was elected in 1960 and Continue Reading...
