From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime

The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History

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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime

The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History

About this book

This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal response to hate crimes, this book reveals both continuity and change in terms of the political forces underpinning the enactment of new laws regarding racial violence in different periods and of the social and institutional problems that hinder the effective enforcement of these laws. A thought-provoking analysis of how criminal law reflects and constructs social norms, this book offers a new historical and theoretical perspective for analyzing the limits of current attempts to use criminal legislation as a weapon against racism.

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Yes, you can access From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime by Ely Aaronson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781107026896
eBook ISBN
9781316147146
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Table of contents
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Toward a Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Criminalization of Racial Violence
  11. 2 Progressive Criminalization at the Heart of Darkness?
  12. 3 “Social Equality Is Not a Subject to Be Legislated Upon”
  13. 4 “We Bring It Out in the Open, Where It Can Be Seen and Dealt With”
  14. 5 Criminalizing Racial Hatred, Legitimizing Racial Inequality
  15. 6 Conclusion
  16. Index