By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners
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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022].
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First edition.
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xxiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chetco Community Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction
342.0873 BURNHAM 2022
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Coos Bay Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction
342.0873 BUR, By 2022
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-317) and index.
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.

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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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Company, 2022.

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