Pippa Holloway

Living in Infamy (eBook, PDF)

Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the post-war South, white southern Democrats expanded the usage of laws disfranchising for crimes of infamy in order to deny African Americans the suffrage rights due them as citizens, employing historical similarities between the legal statuses of slaves and convicts as justification. At the same time, our nation's criminal code changed. The inhumane treatment of prisoners, the expansion of the prison system, the public nature of punishment by forced labor, and the abandonment of the idea of reform and rehabilitation of prisoners all contributed to a national consensus that certain categories of criminals should be permanently disfranchised. As racial barriers to suffrage were challenged and fell, rights remained restricted for persons targeted by such infamy laws; criminal convictions--in place of race--continued the disparity in legal status between whites and African Americans. Decades later, after race-based disfranchisement has officially ended, legislation steeped in a legacy of racial discrimination continues to perpetuate a dichotomy of suffrage and citizenship that still affects our election outcomes today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199976096
• Artikelnr.: 39943680

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