In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have no rights which the white man was bound to respect, it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders-even slaves-appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' h…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0633-3
- EAN: 9780812206333
- Produktnummer: 16940008
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 456 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'678 KB
- Abbildungen: 15 illus.
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