Pippa Holloway

Living with Infamy

Felon Disenfranchisement and American Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

Living in Infamy uncovers the origins of felon disfranchisement and traces the expansion of the practice to felons regardless of race and its spread beyond the South, establishing a system that affects the American electoral process today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199976089
• ISBN-10: 0199976082
• Artikelnr.: 39092453

Autorenporträt

Pippa Holloway is Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945 and Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. "Not infamous, nor subject to another man's will"
2. "Disqualified in Advance"
3. "A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote"
4. Furtive Offenses and Robust Crimes
5. Making New Men: Pardons and Restorations of Citizenship Rights
6. Courts, Voting Rights, and Black Protest in the Early 20th Century
7. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index