From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime - The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History

List of contents

1. Towards a historical and sociological analysis of the criminalization of racial violence; 2. Progressive criminalization at the heart of darkness?: the legal response to the victimization of slaves in the colonial and antebellum South; 3. 'Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon': the rise and fall of federal pro-black criminalization policy, 1865-1909; 4. 'We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with': campaigning for criminalization reform in the long civil rights movement, 1909-68; 5. Criminalizing racial hatred, legitimizing racial inequality: hate-crime laws and the new politics of pro-black criminalization; 6. Conclusion: criminalization reform and egalitarian social change - an uneasy relationship.

About the author

Ely Aaronson is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Summary

The first book to develop an in-depth analysis of how legal and political ideas concerning the criminalization of racial violence have evolved from slavery to the present, and to offer new historical and theoretical perspective for analyzing limits of current attempts to use criminal legislation as a weapon against racism.

Product details

• Authors: Ely Aaronson, Ely (University of Haifa Aaronson, Aaronson Ely
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781107608542
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60854-2
• No. of pages: 219
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / United States / General, Legal History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Crime & criminology, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery