The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American CultureTransaction Publishers - 339 páginas Violence has marked relations between blacks and whites in America for nearly four hundred years. In The Lineaments of Wrath, James W. Clarke draws upon behavioral science theory and primary historical evidence to examine and explain its causes and enduring consequences. Beginning with slavery and concluding with the present, Clarke describes how the combined effects of state-sanctioned mob violence and the discriminatory administration of â race-blindâ criminal and contract labor laws terrorized and immobilized the black population in the post-emancipation South. In this fashion an agricultural system, based on debt peonage and convict labor, quickly replaced slavery and remained the back-bone of the region's economy well into the twentieth century. Quoting the actual words of victims and witnessesâ⠬⠢from former slaves to â gangstaâ rappersâ⠬⠢Clarke documents the erosion of black confidence in American criminal justice. In so doing, he also traces the evolution, across many generations, of a black subculture of violence, in which disputes are settled personally, and without recourse to the legal system. That subculture, the author concludes, accounts for historically high rates of black-on-black violence which now threatens to destroy the black inner city from within. The Lineaments of Wrath puts America's race issues into a completely original historical perspective. Those in the fields of political science, sociology, history, psychology, public policy, race relations, and law will find Clarke's work of profound importance. |
Contenido
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Scarred in the Flame of Withering Injustice | 35 |
No More Auction Block | 47 |
The Paradox of Emancipation | 61 |
The Failure of Reform | 77 |
KKK The Assault on Black Families | 93 |
Convict Labor | 109 |
The Richest Soil the Poorest People | 177 |
The Promised Land | 193 |
BlackonBlack Homicide 19001939 | 209 |
Dark Ghettos | 227 |
Killing Fumes | 239 |
Vanishing Families | 249 |
Urban Tribal Societies | 265 |
Conclusions | 283 |
A Lawless Loyalty to Color | 127 |
The Scourge of Lynching | 139 |
Segregation Disfranchisement and Legal Lynchings | 159 |
Selected Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 335 |
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The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime and American Culture James W. Clarke Vista previa limitada - 2018 |
The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture James W. Clarke Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture James W. Clarke Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |