Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder

In many rural areas around the world, stagnation continues to occur. Occasionally it will also occur in the poor region of the third world city. Most of these mass killings involve killers and victims of the same ethnic, ethnic, or religious group; that is, people are killing people very much like theirs. These patterns pose many questions. First of all, what is the deepest fundamental cause of Lynch somewhere, such as South America? Second, if the race is not the cause of the killing of mobs outside the United States, there are other more fundamental mechanics for creating Lynch even in the south? Finally, if that act is the basis of a race or social control system, why does the rise get worse and steep in many places? In this article we will explore these problems in several parts of the world, especially in Indonesia, South Africa, Guatemala, and South America.

Lynching is defined as "to kill a group of people or a small group of people by a group of" violent ". It is usually a special form of ceremonial murder involving the majority of the local white community. Lynch announced in advance that it is the spectacle of the audience witness. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the number of Lynch in the US declined overall, but in the 1920s there was an average of 30 Lynch a year on average. In the survey of 100 Lynches from 1929 to 1940, at least a third of the victims were innocent and indicted for crime.

There was no personal criminal record on December 31, 1952, the first time in the past 70 years. Lynch, which is defined as a public non-judicial killer mob, affects many people in the United States, but opposing black Americans to enforce and maintain white supremacy is common in racial terrorism It is a good tool. Prior to 1881, reliable Lynch statistics were not recorded. However, the Chicago Tribune, the National Association for Promotion of Colored People and the Tuskegee Institute began to maintain independent Lynch records in the early years of 1882. As of 1952, these authorities reported that 4,726 people were lynching in the United States over the past 70 years, 3,431 of which are African Americans. In the history of the United States, it is not unusual that all Lynch victims are African Americans.

In the nineteenth century, southern African Americans carried out various mobs of violence. Wells focused on African American lynch by mob. The basis for Lynch is about "homicide, robbery, arson, poisoned water and livestock, insults of white, insults of raucity, rude, and other" crime "allegations (29). These reasons are not reasonable. These Lynch can be handled in various ways, such as a court or a jury, rather than a rascal. Mobi violence truly attacked African Americans and left them without saying anything to these actions. People abused are men, women, children. Ida B. Wells reported in 1892 that 241 men, women and children in 26 states were lynched in the "Red Record". 200% of 10 years since 1882 "(10)