| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1 | The History Cooperative

*Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence.* By Cynthia Skove Nevels. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xi + 189 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
In recent years, historians have broadened our understanding of race in America by extending their analysis beyond the dualities of black and white, utilizing the concept of "whiteness" to illustrate the socially constructed nature of race. Nevels's book utilizes whiteness theory to explain why immigrants participated in the lynching of African Americans in Brazos County, Texas.	1
In the 1890s, Brazos was a cotton-producing county with a black majority and a history of racial violence. It was also home to several hundred European immigrants, most notably Italians and Czechs. Well into the 1890s, the county repeatedly elected Republicans, Greenbackers, Populists, and other independent candidates to local offices. This history of contested politics provides much of the backdrop to the violent story told here.	. . .

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