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Title:

From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

ix, 309 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.
African American criminals--Civil rights.
Lynching--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Other Authors:

Ogletree, Charles J.
Sarat, Austin.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice

ISBN:

0814740227
9780814740224
0814740219
9780814740217
9780814740224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814740217 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814740219 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005035414

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)