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Southern mercy : empire and American civilization in juvenile reform, 1890-1944 / Annette Louise Bickford.
LIBRA HV9105.N9 B53 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bickford, Annette Louise, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reformatories--North Carolina--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Reformatories.
- Reformatories--North Carolina--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--North Carolina--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--North Carolina--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Racism--North Carolina--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Racism.
- Racism--North Carolina--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation.
- North Carolina--Race relations--History--19th century--Case studies.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 289 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized, gendered, and linked to sexuality. Southern Mercy uses four historical examples of juvenile reformatories in North Carolina to explore how spectacles of mercy have influenced Southern modernity. Working through archival material pertaining to race and moral uplift, including rare photos from the private archives of Samarcand Manor (the State Home and Industrial Manor for Girls) and restricted archival records of reformatory racial policies, Annette Bickford examines the limits of emancipation, and the exclusions inherent in liberal humanism that distinguish racism in the contemporary "post-race" era."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Swamp Island 27
- 2 The Samarcand Arson Case 60
- 3 The Energy of Despair 96
- 4 The Merciful Executioner 124
- 5 The Prodigal Son 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442645745
- 1442645741
- 9781442613980
- 144261398X
- OCLC:
- 950450933
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