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Author:
Bender, Steven, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96046838
Title:
Mea culpa : lessons on law and regret from U.S. history / Steven W. Bender.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
pages cm
Subject:
Human rights--United States--History.
Regret--History.--United States--History.
United States--Moral and ethical aspects.--Moral and ethical aspects.
Minorities--History.--United States--History.
United States--Moral and ethical aspects.--Government policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Discrimination--History.--United States--History.
Marginality, Social--History.--United States--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Regret: frameworks for prediction -- What dehumanization predicts: the landscapes of future regret -- Aliens, illegals, wetbacks, and anchor babies: the dehumanization of immigrant -- Workers and their families -- Beasts of burden: farmworkers in the U.S. field of dreams -- The wages of poverty: inequality, welfare queens, and the homeless -- Sexuality and dehumanization: homophobia in U.S. law and life -- Dehumanizing criminals: the monsters of death row -- Flying while Muslim: "ragheads" and human rights -- From slavery to the new Jim Crow of mass incarceration: the ongoing -- Dehumanization of African Americans -- You've come a long way, baby! Gender and dehumanization -- International dehumanization -- Conclusion: a blueprint for humanization through compassion.
ISBN:
1479899623
9781479899623
OCLC:
(OCoLC)884293436
LCCN:
2014028738
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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