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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Autor principal: Bender, Steven (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rechtsreform
Entmenschlichung
Menschenrecht
Minderheit
Unterdrückung
Unrecht
Social policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Marginality, Social > Political aspects.
Human rights.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Discrimination > Law and legislation.
LAW > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Regret > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Marginality, Social > Political aspects > United States > History.
Discrimination > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Regret > Political aspects > United States > History.
Human rights > United States > History.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale > Aspect moral.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States > Social policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
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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