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From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America

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From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.
Publication
New York : New York University, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023.
  • Sarat, Austin.
Description
ix, 309 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Subject
  • Discrimination in capital punishment > United States
  • African American criminals > Civil rights
  • Lynching > United States
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Capital punishment as legal lynching? / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Making race matter in death matters / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- Traces of slavery : race and the death penalty in historical perspective / Stuart Banner -- The role of victim's race and geography on death sentencing : some recent data from Illinois / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce -- Death in "whiteface" : modern race minstrels, official lynching, and the culture of American apartheid / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner -- Stereotypes, prejudice, and life-and-death decision making : lessons from laypersons in an experimental setting / Mona Lynch -- Discrimination, death and denial : the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty / Stephen B. Bright -- The rhetoric of race in the "new abolitionism" / Austin Sarat.
Call Number
Sc E 06-734
ISBN
  • 0814740219 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005035414
  • 9780814740217
  • 9780814740224
OCLC
62533842
Title
From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.
Imprint
New York : New York University, c2006.
Series
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023.
Sarat, Austin.
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9780814740217
9780814740224
Research Call Number
Sc E 06-734
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