In the shadow of the gallows

Jeannine Marie DeLombard

earliest edition we have, 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 paperback 456 pages

From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have...

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In the Shadow of the Gallows paperback · 2014 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 456 pages · 9780812223170
In the shadow of the gallows edition · 2012 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 446 pages · 9780812244229
In the Shadow of the Gallows edition · 2012 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 456 pages · 9780812206333

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