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10%OFFAnnette Louise Bickford - Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944 - 9781442613980 - V9781442613980
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Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944

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Description for Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944 paperback. In Southern Mercy, Annette Bickford examines the limits of emancipation, and the exclusions inherent in liberal humanism that distinguish racism in the contemporary "post-race" era. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; JFSL3; JHB; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.

From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized, gendered, and linked to sexuality.

Southern Mercy uses four historical examples of juvenile reformatories in North Carolina to explore how spectacles of mercy have influenced Southern modernity. Working through archival material pertaining to race and moral uplift, including rare photos from the private archives of Samarcand Manor (the State Home and Industrial Manor for Girls) and restricted archival records of reformatory ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442613980
SKU
V9781442613980
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Ref
99-1

About Annette Louise Bickford
Annette Bickford is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at York University.

Reviews for Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944
"Annette Louise Bickford inquires as to the degree of mercy that operated in early-twentieth century juvenile reform in the U.S. South … The book offers excellent archival research about the realities of life in mid-century juvenile reformatories… Her theoretical framework grounded in a critique of liberal humanism is intriguing and should raise interest especially among graduate students. "
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