| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence. By Cynthia Skove Nevels. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv, 189 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978–1- 58544–589–9.)

Brazos County, which lies roughly in the center of eastern Texas, contributed significantly to the region's notorious history of racial violence. Cynthia Skove Nevels examines that history in Lynching to Belong. Nevels's primary thesis is that European immigrant groups residing in Brazos County participated in the lynching culture in order to demonstrate their "whiteness" and to distinguish themselves from the truly disadvantaged African American population. One does not need to agree with the broader conclusions that Nevels draws from her evidence to appreciate the path that she has taken to reach them.

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