Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; I: The History of Negro-White Violence in America; 1: Lawlessness and Violence; 2: The Period of Slave Insurrections and Resistance 1640-1861; 3: Civil war and Reconstruction 1861-1877; 4: The Second Reconstruction and the Beginnings of the Great Migration 1878-1914; 5: World war i and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1915-1929; 6: Interwar and Depression 1930-1941; 7: World War II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1942-1954; 8: Massive Assault Upon the Accommodative Structure and the Violence of the Sixties 1955-1969; II: Patterns in American Racial Violence; 9: Patterns in American Racial Violence; III: Causation:Some Theoretical and Empirical Notions; 10: Empirical Generalizations; 11: Theory: Taxonomic, Exotic, Psychological, and Sociological; IV: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence; 12: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence

About the Author

Allen D. Grimshaw is professor emeritus of sociology at Indiana University. His teaching focused on social conflict as well as on language and its use in social context. He is the author of Conflict Talk: Socio-linguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations, Collegial Discourse - Professional Conversation among Peers, and Language as Social Resource.