Mea culpa : lessons on law and regret from U.S. history /

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In Mea Culpa, Steven W. Bender examines how the United States' collective shame about its past has shaped the evolution of law and behavior. We regret slavery and segregationist Jim Crow laws: we craft our legislation in response to that regret. By examining policies and practices that affected...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bender, Steven (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Human rights > United States > History.
Regret > Political aspects > United States > History.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Discrimination > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Marginality, Social > Political aspects > United States > History.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Regret > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
LAW > General.
Discrimination > Law and legislation
Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Moral and ethical aspects
Human rights
Marginality, Social > Political aspects
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Social policy > Moral and ethical aspects
Unrecht
Unterdrückung
Minderheit
Menschenrecht
Entmenschlichung
Rechtsreform
United States > Social policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
États-Unis > Politique sociale > Aspect moral.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect moral.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Regret: frameworks for prediction
  • What dehumanization predicts: the landscapes of future regret
  • Aliens, illegals, wetbacks, and anchor babies: the dehumanization of immigrant
  • Workers and their families
  • Beasts of burden: farmworkers in the U.S. field of dreams
  • The wages of poverty: inequality, welfare queens, and the homeless
  • Sexuality and dehumanization: homophobia in U.S. law and life
  • Dehumanizing criminals: the monsters of death row
  • Flying while Muslim: "ragheads" and human rights
  • From slavery to the new Jim Crow of mass incarceration: the ongoing
  • Dehumanization of African Americans
  • You've come a long way, baby! Gender and dehumanization
  • International dehumanization
  • Conclusion: a blueprint for humanization through compassion.

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