From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America

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Titel: From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State : Race and the Death Penalty in America

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The Meaning and Significance of Race in the Culture of Capital Punishment
Chapter 1 Capital Punishment as Legal Lynching?
Chapter 2 Making Race Matter in Death Matters
Chapter 3 Traces of Slavery: Race and the Death Penalty in Historical Perspective
Part II Race and the Death Penalty Process
Chapter 4 The Role of Victim's Race and Geography on Death Sentencing: Some Recent Data from Illinois
Chapter 5 Death in "Whiteface" Modern Race Minstrels, Official Lynching, and the Culture of American Apartheid
Chapter 6 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Life-and-Death Decision Making: Lessons from Laypersons in an Experimental Setting
Part III Race, Politics, and the Death Penalty
Chapter 7 Discrimination, Death, and Denial: The Tolerance of Racial Discrimination in Infliction of the Death Penalty
Chapter 8 The Rhetoric of Race in the "New Abolitionism"
Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Sarat, Austin [VerfasserIn]; Banner, Stuart [MitwirkendeR]; Bright, Stephen B. [MitwirkendeR]; Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin [MitwirkendeR]; Jr., Charles J. Ogletree [HerausgeberIn]; Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. [MitwirkendeR]; Lynch, Mona [MitwirkendeR]; Ogletree Jr, Charles J. [MitwirkendeR]; Ogletree Jr., Charles J. [MitwirkendeR]; Pierce, Glenn L. [MitwirkendeR]; Radelet, Michael L. [MitwirkendeR]; Sarat, Austin [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: New York, NY: New York University Press, [2006]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762424

ISBN: 9780814762424

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Schlagwörter: African American criminals Civil rights ; Criminal justice, Administration of United States ; Discrimination in capital punishment United States ; Lynching United States ; LAW / Discrimination

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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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