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In the shadow of the gallows : race, crime, and American civic identity / Jeannine Marie DeLombard.
LIBRA PS173.N4 D44 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeLombard, Jeannine Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Criminals in literature.
- Crime and race--United States--History.
- Crime and race.
- African American criminals--History.
- African American criminals.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- African Americans.
- Criminal law.
- History.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Criminal law--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part I
- 1 Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact 51
- 2 Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self 87
- Part II
- 3 The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics 119
- 4 The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America 164
- 5 How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship 206
- 6 Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives 252.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-431) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812244229
- 0812244222
- OCLC:
- 768792995
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