By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
342.7308 BURNHA 2022
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342.7308 BURNHA 2022
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-317) and index.
Description
"A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to today. Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard. 25 black-and-white illustrations"--,Provided by amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Burnham, M. A. (2022). By hands now known: Jim Crow's legal executioners (First edition.). W.W. Norton and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burnham, Margaret A, 1944-. 2022. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners. W.W. Norton and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burnham, Margaret A, 1944-. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners W.W. Norton and Company, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Burnham, Margaret A. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners First edition., W.W. Norton and Company, 2022.
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