The Punishment Monopoly : Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States /

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"Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buck, Pem Davidson (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery.
Race relations.
Punishment.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice penale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Slavery > United States > History.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States > History.
Punishment > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming 'liberty and justice for all'? Using stories of her European ancestors, who arrived in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and following their descendants into the early nineteenth century, Buck shows how struggles over the right to punish, backed by the growing power of the state governed by a white elite, made possible the dispossession of Africans, Native Americans, and poor whites"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781583678350

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