| Description |
ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice |
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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Subject |
Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States.
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African American criminals -- Civil rights.
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Lynching -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023
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Sarat, Austin.
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| ISBN |
0814740219 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814740217 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814740227 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814740224 paperback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780814740217 |
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9780814740224 |
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