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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Haney Foundation series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: How a slave was made a man
- Part I. Contracting guilt : mixed character, civil slavery, and the social compact ; Black catalogues : crime, print, and the rise of the black self
- Part II. The ignominious cord : crime, counterfactuals, and the new black politics ; The work of death : time, crime, and personhood in Jacksonian America ; How freeman was made a madman : race, capacity, and citizenship ; Who aint a slaver? Citizenship, piracy, and slaver narratives
- Conclusion.