Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective

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Abrahams, Ray, 83 Africa: colonial violence in, 102; lynching research in, 1; Soviets and U.S. competing for influence over, 228; witch lynching in, 59–62 African Americans: antilynching efforts, 213n89; black troops in Europe in 1945, 99–100; fear of black rapist as a myth, 147, 149, 160, 175, 176, 183, 223; forming a national black political party, 158n42; in France, 97; hanging as punishment of, 49, 64, 97, 137, 141, 142, 143, 146, 148, 162, 175, 176, 201, 219, 220–21, 223; on internment of Japanese Americans, 206; Japanese focus on, 113n14, 135–36, 181, 182, 184, 185, 188, 191–92, 193–98, 200–202, 204, 205–7, 209n28, 212n67, 213n89; jokes about African Americans, 138, 149, 154n4, 159n59; racism and racial violence, 75, 88–89, 137–53, 154n4, 156n16, 159n59 (see also race riots; riots); responses to Japanese anti-lynching protests, 196–206; shootings as punishment of, 97, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 147, 148, 155n13, 175; Soviet focus on, 215–17, 219–23, 224–25, 227, 228, 234n60, 235n65 African National Congress, 61 Aguilar, Donaciano, 84 Ahab (king of Israel), 32–33 AIDS and witchcraft, 63 Ajia Jiron (magazine), 189 Akhenaton (king of Egypt), 19–20, 25 Albuquerque, NM, 80 Albuquerque Review (newspaper), 79–80 Aleksandrov, Grigorii, 227 Alençon, France, 53 Alexandria, LA, lynching, 194 Algeria, 102 Alipás, Gervasio, 71 Allen, James, 4 Almagordo News (newspaper), 85 Alter, Peter, 117 Amarna Letters, 25 American Communist Party, 99. See also Communist Party of the United States of America American exceptionalism, 2, 100–102, 104, 107, 111, 135, 161, 162–63 American Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Commission, 195 “American law,” 170, 177, 180n61. See also rhetoric of lynching Americans in Their Moral, Social and Political Relations, The (Grund), 163 Index 242 Index Amerikansky russky viestnik (newspaper), 138, 141, 142, 144, 149, 150 Amsterdam, Netherlands, 53 Amsterdam Star News (newspaper), 193–94 ANC. See African National Congress Andersonstown News (newspaper), 116 antilynching activists, 135; armed resistance against lynchings by Mexicans, 82–83; condemnations of lynching, 79–90; efforts by African Americans, 213n89; Ida Wells as an activist, 135, 160, 174–77, 181, 182, 197; Mexico’s attempts to stop mob violence against Mexicans in U.S., 86–88; Mexico’s refusal to hand over Mexicans accused of crimes against Anglos, 89; newspapers taking up the cause of, 79–80, 81–82, 86, 89; political pressures in U.S., 86–87 antimiscegenation statutes (U.S.), 156n16 anti-Semitic violence, 44n91, 100 antislavery movement, 174 Apodaca, Severanio, 76 Aragon, Victorio, 78 Archuleta, Guadulupe, 77, 93n31 Ardennes, France, 53 Aseev, Nikolai, 223 Asian Review (magazine), 189–90, 196 Assam, India, 63 assassination, 20 Assyria, 27, 42n65 Attucks, Crispus, 202 Australia, 166, 170 Ba’al (Canaanite deity), 32, 34 Babylon, 19–20, 48n127 Baca, Onofrio, 84 Baen, Jan de, 3–4 Baker, Ray Stannard, 148 Ballymurphy, 122 Baltimore Afro-American (newspaper), 199, 200–201, 203, 213n89 Bamu, Magalie, 58 Banks, Elizabeth L., 176 Baptist Young People’s Union, 153 Baranowski, Bohdan, 55–56 Barela, Manuel, 94n41 Basque country, 55–56 beatings as punishment, 166–67; in ancient Near East, 16, 46n111; in Northern Ireland, 116, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128; of witches, 51, 59, 61 beheadings as punishment, 16, 44n98, 58 Belfast, Ireland, 120–21, 125 Belfast Brigade of the IRA, 125 Belgian Congo, 102 Bell, Horace, 126 Bell, Thomas, 145 Benavides, Rafael, 13–14, 68–90, 93n31 Bengal, India, 63–64 Berkley, VA, 148 Béthune, France, 110 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 204 Bettice, Arthur, 124 Bibb, Joseph D., 201, 204 Bible, the, 15, 17, 27–28; extralegal violence in, 28–34 Bilbo, Theodore G., 203–4 Binford, Leigh, 2 Bishop, E. A., 139 Biubi, Eric, 58 black rapist, fears about, 147, 149, 160, 175, 176, 183, 223 blacks. See African Americans Blaine, James G., 173 Blancett, George, 73, 93n31 Blancett, John, 93n31 Bloomfield, NM, 77 Blount, George W., 148 Index 243 Bluefield, WV, 146 Bodies of the De Witt Brothers, The (painting by Baen), 3–4 Bolivia, 2 Bombay Street, 120 Botswana, 60 Braddock, PA, 145 Bradford Observer (newspaper), 176 Bragg, William, 155n11 Brass, Paul, 2–3 Breckenridge, TX, 88 Brehon laws, 117, 120 Britain. See Great Britain Brown, John, 127 Brown, William, 183, 187, 217–19, 224 Bruington, George, 88 Bryant, Ray, 228 Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, 171 Bugoš, Andrej, 144 burning alive as a form of lynching, 16, 171; in ancient Near East, 30...