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Amy Kate Bailey

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Verified email at uic.edu
Cited by 375

Practicing what they preach? Lynching and religion in the American South, 1890–1929

AK Bailey, KA Snedker - American Journal of Sociology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
This project employs a moral solidarity framework to explore the relationship between
organized religion and lynching in the American South. The authors ask whether a county’s …

Targeting lynch victims: social marginality or status transgressions?

AK Bailey, SE Tolnay, EM Beck… - American Sociological …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents the first evidence based on a newly-compiled database of known lynch
victims. Using information from the original census enumerators’ manuscripts, we identify …

[BOOK][B] Lynched: The victims of southern mob violence

AK Bailey, SE Tolnay - 2015 - books.google.com
… lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay's revealing profiles and …
American men who were not lynched, Bailey and Tolnay identify the factors that made them …

Personalizing lynch victims: A new database to support the study of mob violence

AK Bailey, SE Tolnay, EM Beck… - Historical Methods: A …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The authors describe the development of a data source that facilitates the inclusion of
individual victims and their characteristics in the study of lynching in the southern United States. …

Contested terrain: The state versus threatened lynch mob violence

EM Beck, SE Tolnay, AK Bailey - American Journal of …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Prior research on mob violence in the American South has focused on lynchings that were
successfully completed. Here, the authors explore new territory by studying the relationship …

Student veterans' academic performance before and after the Post–9/11 GI Bill

AK Bailey, MB Drury, H Grandy - Armed Forces & Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article uses student records from a nonselective public institution to assess whether
student veterans’ academic performance and preparation differed before and after the post–9/…

How personal is the political? Democratic revolution and fertility decline

AK Bailey - Journal of Family History, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Existing theory has identified the capacity of political revolutions to effect change in a variety
of social institutions, although relationships between revolution and many institutions …

Historical mob violence and the 2016 presidential election

R Abbott, AK Bailey - The ANNALS of the American Academy …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
As a 2016 presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump invoked racially charged rhetoric to
galvanize conservative white voters who felt left behind in the “new economy.” In this article, we …

The Migration of Lynch Victims' Families, 1880–1930

R Gabriel, A Haws, AK Bailey, J Price - Demography, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
We examine the relationship between the lynching of African Americans in the southern
United States and subsequent county out-migration of the victims' surviving family members. …

Institutional castling: Military enlistment and mass incarceration in the United States

BL Sykes, AK Bailey - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2020 - rsfjournal.org
The military is a major state provider of employment, occupational training, and educational
subsidies. Yet military downsizing and its increased selectivity during penal expansion may …