Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Oct 19;118(42). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2103519118.
The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memorializations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence. We obtained and merged data on Confederate memorializations at the county level and lynching victims, also at the county level. We find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of the number of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates. This finding provides concrete, quantitative, and historically and geographically situated evidence consistent with the position that Confederate memorializations reflect a racist history, one marred by intentions to terrorize and intimidate Black Americans in response to Black progress.
本研究通过考察邦联纪念物与私刑之间的关系来探究邦联纪念物的历史，私刑是一种明确的种族主义暴力行为。我们获取并合并了县级邦联纪念物和私刑受害者的数据。我们发现，一个县的私刑受害者人数是该县邦联纪念物数量的一个积极且显著的预测因素，即使在控制了相关协变量后也是如此。这一发现提供了具体的、定量的、历史和地理上的证据，与邦联纪念物反映了种族主义历史的观点一致，这种历史充满了意图恐吓和威胁非裔美国人以回应非裔美国人的进步的意图。
