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Zusatztext This is a book that needed to be written. For the first time we now have a comprehensive and sophisticated historical analysis of the racial dynamics of felony disenfranchisement as it evolved in the post-Civil War South. It's not a pretty picture, but it helps us to understand how we came to a point where U.S. policies in this regard are far out of line with the rest of the democratic world. Informationen zum Autor Pippa Holloway is Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945 and Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present. Klappentext Living in Infamy uncovers the origins of felon disfranchisement and traces the expansion of the practice to felons regardless of race and its spread beyond the South, establishing a system that affects the American electoral process today. "This is a book that needed to be written. For the first time we now have a comprehensive and sophisticated historical analysis of the racial dynamics of felony disenfranchisement as it evolved in the post-Civil War South. It's not a pretty picture, but it helps us to understand how we came to a point where U.S. policies in this regard are far out of line with the rest of the democratic world." --Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, and author of Race to Incarcerate "Historians, legal scholars, and public policymakers will all profit from reading this fascinating account of the origins and development of felon disfranchisement in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on prodigious research in previously unexplored sources, Living in Infamy meticulously shows how ideas about race, class, and social status, together with partisan political maneuvering, continue to shape attempts to engage in voter suppression in the twenty-first century. It deftly complicates our notions of who gets to practice citizenship." --Steven F. Lawson, author of Running for Freedom Zusammenfassung Living in Infamy uncovers the origins of felon disfranchisement and traces the expansion of the practice to felons regardless of race and its spread beyond the South, establishing a system that affects the American electoral process today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. "Not infamous, nor subject to another man's will" 2. "Disqualified in Advance" 3. "A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote" 4. Furtive Offenses and Robust Crimes 5. Making New Men: Pardons and Restorations of Citizenship Rights 6. Courts, Voting Rights, and Black Protest in the Early 20th Century 7. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
