In the Shadow of the Gallows : : Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity /

In the Shadow of the Gallows : : Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity / / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.

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From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more reveal...

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DeLombard, Jeannine Marie,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Haney Foundation Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.) :; 15 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact
  • Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self
  • Part II
  • Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics
  • Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America
  • Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship
  • Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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