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Living in infamy : felon disfranchisement and the history of American citizenship / Pippa Holloway.
LIBRA KF9747 .H65 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holloway, Pippa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political rights, Loss of--United States--States.
- Political rights, Loss of.
- Ex-convicts--Suffrage--United States.
- Ex-convicts.
- Election law--United States--States.
- Election law.
- Ex-convicts--Suffrage.
- United States.
- African American criminals.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation.
- Election law--U.S. states.
- Political rights, Loss of--U.S. states.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 236 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 "Not Infamous, nor Subject to Another Man's Will" 17
- 2 "Disqualified in Advance" 33
- 3 "A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote" 54
- 4 Furtive Offenses and Robust Crimes 79
- 5 Making New Men: Pardons and Restorations of Citizenship Rights 105
- 6 Courts, Voting Rights, and Black Protest in the Early Twentieth Century 132.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199976089
- 0199976082
- OCLC:
- 844245386
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