Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index.
Contents:
The lens of racial perception -- Alabama : a notional fiction -- Midnight matters -- Victims -- Heritage -- The assembly line -- Through a lens darkly -- No n-words anywhere.
Summary:
"Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen's arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general"-- Provided by the publisher.
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