Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1. Can the Souls of Black Folk Be Redeemed? Race, Religion, and the Politics of Public Appeals for Salvation from the Execution Chamber; 2. Performing Discretion or Performing Discrimination? Race, Ritual, and the Denial of Participatory Rights in Capital Jury Selection; 3. Do Blacks Die Alone? The Role of Collective Identities in Individual African American Views of the Death Penalty; 4. What We Tell Each Other: African American Folk Knowledge of the Death Penalty
5. Something Less Than Equal but the Same: The Death Penalty and the Inversion of Equality in African American Politics of PunishmentConclusion: The Death Penalty and the Shared Legacy of Race; Epilogue: Troy, Trayvon, and the Trend toward Abolition; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. The findings of this research demonstrate that the racial inequity in the meting out of death sentences has legal and political externalities that move beyond individual defendants to larger numbers of African Americans. This book looks at the meaning of the death penalty to and for African Americans
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 25, 2015)
