Arellano, Adrian;
(2023)
Intergenerational Immobility: A Legacy of Racial Violence.
Security Studies
, 32
(4-5)
pp. 846-870.
10.1080/09636412.2023.2256664.
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Abstract
What are the long-run consequences of racial violence on intergenerational mobility? Do its impacts extend to the broader community? Using newly available longitudinal data covering much of the US population from 1989–2015, this study documents two results. First, it establishes a statistical association between the severity of lynching of Black Americans and long-run economic outcomes across the Southern United States. Counties that experienced racial violence most intensely in the past have lower levels of Black upward mobility today. Second, although most lynch victims were Black males, their long-run consequences are equally observable for the current generation of both Black males and females. Living in counties that experienced lynchings in the 19th and 20th centuries reduces Black upwardly mobile in the 21st century. These findings demonstrate that collective violence may hinder long-term intergenerational mobility for the broader affected community, irrespective of temporal proximity or sex.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Intergenerational Immobility: A Legacy of Racial Violence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09636412.2023.2256664 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2256664 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Inequality; intergenerational mobility; lynching; racial violence; United States |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187227 |
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