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Tough on Hate? : The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes /
Why do we know every gory crime scene detail about such victims as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and yet almost nothing about the vast majority of other hate crime victims? Now that federal anti-hate-crimes laws have been passed, why has the number of these crimes not declined significantly? To...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes
- 2. The Invention of Hate Crimes
- 3. The Nation and Post-Difference Politics
- 4. Cultural Criminalization and the Figure of the Hater
- 5. Hate Crime Victimhood and Post-Difference Citizenship
- 6. Epilogue: Challenging Hate Crimes on a Cultural Front
- Appendix: Methods and Sources
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author