{"product_id":"from-lynch-mobs-to-the-killing-state-race-and-the-death-penalty-in-america-9780814740224","title":"From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Lynch Mobs to the Killing State\u003c\/b\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4518007\"\u003eAustin Sarat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.04w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814740224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814740227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC030000\"\u003ePenology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC031000\"\u003eDiscrimination\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC020000\"\u003eMinority Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. He has collaborated with Charles J. Ogletree on numerous works for NYU Press, including \u003ci\u003eRacial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation: Beyond Law and Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePunishment in Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrom Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGuns in Law\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Criminals and Enemies, Law's Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReimagining \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" Family, . Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. \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","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44702843535597,"sku":"9780814740224","price":61.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_3c3889d6-9192-4ba0-9e9f-cfa889ab5119.jpg?v=1703893346","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/from-lynch-mobs-to-the-killing-state-race-and-the-death-penalty-in-america-9780814740224","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}