Black rage confronts the law / / Paul Harris.

• VerfasserIn: Harris, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Critical America.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In 1971, Paul Harris pioneered the modern version of the black rage defense when he successfully defended a young black man charged with armed bank robbery. Dubbed one of the most novel criminal defenses in American history by Vanity Fair, the black rage defense is enormously controversial, frequent...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Black Rage Defense, 1846: The Trial of William Freeman
• 2. The Black Rage Defense, 1971
• 3. The Law: Its Myths and Rituals
• 4. Black Rage 1971: The Case of James Johnson, Jr.
• 5. James Johnson's Workers' Compensation Case
• 6. Racism, Rage, and Criminal Defenses
• 7. To Use or Not to Use the Black Rage Defense
• 8. Race, Class, and the Trials of Clarence Darrow
• 9. A Survey of Black Rage Cases
• 10. Urban War Zones
• 11. White Rage—Hate Crimes
• 12. White Rage—Do Prisons Cause Crime?
• 13. The Cultural Defense and the Trials of Patrick Hooty Croy
• 14. "Remake the World"
• Notes
• Index