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10%OFFAustin Sarat - From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America - 9780814740224 - V9780814740224
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From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America

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Description for From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America Paperback. Uncovers the ways that race influences capital punishment, and attempts to situate the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of America, in particular the history of lynching. This book looks at how the death penalty gives meaning to race, as well as why the racialization of the death penalty is uniquely American. Editor(s): Ogletree, Charles J., Jr. Series: From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.

Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S.
Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment.
In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an interdisciplinary cast of experts in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
Series
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814740224
SKU
V9780814740224
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Austin Sarat
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (Editor) Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. He is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (WW Norton and Company, 2004) ... Read more

Reviews for From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
Ogeltree and Sarat combine the most severe criminal punishment with the bugaboo of racial class and prejudice in their book From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State. The professors astutely note that the death penalty is often used as a club to keep poor and desperate minorities in line in the larger white society.
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