@article{ref1,
title="Historical racist violence and intergenerational harms: accounts from descendants of lynching victims",
journal="Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science",
year="2021",
author="Gaston, Shytierra",
volume="694",
number="1",
pages="78-91",
abstract="African Americans are disproportionately victimized by various forms of racialized violence. This long-standing reality is rooted in America's history of racist violence, one manifestation being racial lynchings. This article investigates the long-term, intergenerational consequences of racial lynchings by centering the voices and experiences of victims' families. The data comprise in-depth interviews with twenty-two descendants of twenty-two victims lynched between 1883 and 1972 in the U.S. South. I employed a multistage qualitative analysis, revealing three main domains of harmful impacts: psychological, familial, and economic. The findings underscore that racist violence has imposed harm beyond victims and for many decades and generations after the violent event. These long-term, intergenerational harms, especially if multiplied across countless incidents, can fundamentally impact the well-being of individuals, families, and communities as well as contribute to structural and macrolevel forces. <br><br>FINDINGS from this study have implications for research, policy, and practice, including efforts toward redress and reparations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-7162",
doi="10.1177/00027162211016317",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027162211016317"
}