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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ogletree, Charles J.

Sarat, Austin.

Series:

Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice

The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.

Discrimination in capital punishment.

Lynching.

African American criminals--Civil rights.

African American criminals.

United States.

Lynching--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University, [2006]

Summary:

Since 1976, over 40 percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment.

From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State tackles the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history. Original, interdisciplinary essays consider the ways that the death penalty is racialized, and how meanings of race in America are constructed in and through our practices of capital punishment.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814740219

0814740227

OCLC:

62533842

Publisher Number:

9780814740217

9780814740224