In the Shadow of the Gallows Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity |
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| Author:
| DeLombard, Jeannine Marie |
| Series title: | Haney Foundation Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-0633-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.
In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.