Jim Crow terror produced a protective rationale for beating children

Evidence

Jim Crow (1877–1965): the racial-terror regime of the segregated South — lynching, chain gangs, sundown towns, white-vigilante violence — produced a specific African-American parental rationale for corporal correction: “I beat my child so the police won’t kill my child.” The rationale — documented in the contemporary scholarship of Robin Bernstein’s Racial Innocence (2011) and the broader literature — positions the parent’s corporal correction as a protective act in a context of lethal racial violence. — , The Rod and the Child, 5182

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how protective-parenting rationales formed under state terror persist as self-defeating habits long after the terror recedes — a micro-case of adaptive trauma becoming maladaptive.
• XREF: connects to: Child beating is enabled by structural conditions, not just individual choices — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4998; The harms of hitting children were invisible to traditional frameworks — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8177; White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632 (+4 more)

Related

• Child beating is enabled by structural conditions, not just individual choices (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Child beating is enabled by structural conditions, not just individual choices #corroborates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 4998
• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #corroborates (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101
• Parents who were beaten become numb to their children’s beatings #expands (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 689
• Children learn power rather than moral rules from being physically punished #expands (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 9873
• The harms of hitting children were invisible to traditional frameworks #qualifies (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 8177
• White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation #expands (0.50)