{"product_id":"from-lynch-mobs-to-the-killing-state-race-and-the-death-penalty-in-america-paperback","title":"From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles J. Ogletree Jr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAustin Sarat\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSituates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an interdisciplinary cast of experts in reflecting on this disturbing issue. Insightful original essays approach the topic from legal, historical, cultural, and social science perspectives to show the ways that the death penalty is racialized, the places in the death penalty process where race makes a difference, and the ways that meanings of race in the United States are constructed in and through our practices of capital punishment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Lynch Mobs to the Killing State\u003c\/i\u003e not only uncovers the ways that race influences capital punishment, but also attempts to situate the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of this country, in particular the history of lynching. In its probing examination of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, this book forces us to consider how the death penalty gives meaning to race as well as why the racialization of the death penalty is uniquely American.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAustin Sarat (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAustin Sarat\u003c\/b\u003e is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has written or edited dozens of books, including \u003ci\u003eLethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLaw's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the 2004 Reginald Heber Smith Book Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles J. Ogletree, Jr. (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharles J. Ogletree, Jr. \u003c\/b\u003eis the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. He is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (WW Norton and Company, 2004) and Co-Author of From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.94 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706556059711,"sku":"9780814740224","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5e494a816e4d71a220217b540bf9f92b.webp?v=1765040891","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/from-lynch-mobs-to-the-killing-state-race-and-the-death-penalty-in-america-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}