From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ogletree, Charles J., Sarat, Austin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University, [2006]
Series:Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.