Mattias Smångs is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Yale University, and a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University.

In Doing Violence, Making Race Professor Smångs uses nuanced theoretical framing, sophisticated statistical analysis, and a thorough knowledge of the history of the American South to take the study of lynching and racial boundary formation to a higher level. As a result, Doing Violence, Making Race is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the shameful history of southern mob violence and its continuing influence on American society.Stewart E. Tolnay, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

• 1. Introduction2. A Theoretical-Conceptual Framework of Group Formation and Intergroup Violence3. From Slavery to Jim Crow: The Historical Context of Lynching4. Lynching as Collective and Interpersonal Intergroup Violence5. Lynching and the Making of the Jim Crow Color-line6. Lynching and the Making of the Solid White South7. Lynching, Interracial Status Competition, and Social White Identities8. Lynching, Jim Crow, and BeyondMethodological Appendix

Mattias Smångs is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Yale University, and a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University.

In Doing Violence, Making Race Professor Smångs uses nuanced theoretical framing, sophisticated statistical analysis, and a thorough knowledge of the history of the American South to take the study of lynching and racial boundary formation to a higher level. As a result, Doing Violence, Making Race is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the shameful history of southern mob violence and its continuing influence on American society.Stewart E. Tolnay, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

• 1. Introduction2. A Theoretical-Conceptual Framework of Group Formation and Intergroup Violence3. From Slavery to Jim Crow: The Historical Context of Lynching4. Lynching as Collective and Interpersonal Intergroup Violence5. Lynching and the Making of the Jim Crow Color-line6. Lynching and the Making of the Solid White South7. Lynching, Interracial Status Competition, and Social White Identities8. Lynching, Jim Crow, and BeyondMethodological Appendix