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The Lineaments of Wrath - Race, Violent Crime and American Culture (Hardcover)
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The Lineaments of Wrath - Race, Violent Crime and American Culture (Hardcover)
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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 "race-blind" 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 witnesses from former slaves to
"gangsta" rappers 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.
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