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From slave abuse to hate crime : the criminalization of racial violence in American history /

"This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary deba...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aaronson, Ely
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado em: New york Cambridge University Press 2014
coleção:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
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Sumário:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Towards a historical and sociological analysis of the criminalization of racial violence; 2. Progressive criminalization at the heart of darkness?: The legal response to the victimization of slaves in the colonial and antebellum South; 3. 'Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon': the rise and fall of federal pro-black criminalization policy, 1865-1909; 4. 'We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with': campaigning for criminalization reform in the long civil rights movement, 1909-1968; 5. Criminalizing racial hatred, legitimizing racial inequality: hate-crime laws and the new politics of pro-black criminalization; 6. Conclusion: criminalization reform and egalitarian social change - an uneasy relationship.