Rooted in the broader tradition of vigilantism, the word lynching is primarily associated with the killing of African Americans by white mobs from the Civil War to the late twentieth century. At the height of lynchings in the United States, between...

Lynching involves acting outside the legal system to inflict punishment, often fatal, against individuals perceived as committing some offence against social order. Beyond tarring and feathering in the English mode, lynching in the US has comprised...

As synonyms for sexism, ‘machismo’ and ‘macho’ have a very short history. ‘Macho’, for example, first appeared in Mexico in the late 1930s and in the United States about a decade later. In Latin America today, the...

a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes...

Execution of a presumed offender by a mob without trial, under the pretense of administering justice. It sometimes involves torturing the victim and mutilating the body. Lynching has often occurred under unsettled social conditions. The term derives...

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