Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong ...
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Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an interdisciplinary cast of experts in reflecting on this disturbing issue. Insightful original essays approach the topic from legal, historical, cultural, and social science perspectives to show the ways that the death penalty is racialized, the places in the death penalty process where race makes a difference, and the ways that meanings of race in the United States are constructed in and through our practices of capital punishment. From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State not only uncovers the ways that race influences capital punishment, but also attempts to situate the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of this country, in particular the history of lynching. In its probing examination of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, this book forces us to consider how the death penalty gives meaning to race as well as why the racialization of the death penalty is uniquely American.
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Fair. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
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Very good. Ex-library. ix, 309 p.; 24 cm. LCCN 2005035414 Type of material Book Main title From lynch mobs to the killing state: race and the death penalty in America / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat. Published/Created New York: New York University Press, c2006. Description ix, 309 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0814740219 (cloth: alk. paper) 0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780814740217 9780814740224 LC classification KF9227. C2 F76 2006 Related names Ogletree, Charles J. Sarat, Austin. Contents Capital punishment as legal lynching? / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn--Making race matter in death matters / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. --Traces of slavery: race and the death penalty in historical perspective / Stuart Banner--The role of victim's race and geography on death sentencing: some recent data from Illinois / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce--Death in "whiteface": modern race minstrels, official lynching, and the culture of American apartheid / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner--Stereotypes, prejudice, and life-and-death decision making: lessons from laypersons in an experimental setting / Mona Lynch--Discrimination, death and denial: the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty / Stephen B. Bright--The rhetoric of race in the "new abolitionism" / Austin Sarat. LC Subjects Discrimination in capital punishment--United States. African American criminals--Civil rights. Lynching--United States. Criminal justice, Administration of--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Series The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice Dewey class no. 364.66089/96073 Geographic area code n-us---National bib no. GBA646946 National bib agency no. 013465123 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm62533842
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; [Inscribed, signed by editor: Charles Ogletree Jr. on title page] Softcover. Minimal shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Light soiling to edge. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by editor. *
