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At the Cross - Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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At the Cross - Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the
unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that
system highlights this truth more than the current implementation
of the death penalty. At the Cross tells a story of the
relationship between the death penalty and race in American
politics that complicates the common belief that individual African
Americans, especially poor African Americans, are more subject to
the death penalty in criminal cases. The current death penalty
regime operates quite differently than it did in the past. The
findings of this research demonstrate the the racial inequity in
the meting out of death sentences has legal and political
externalities that move beyond individual defendants to larger
numbers of African Americans. At the Cross looks at the meaning of
the death penalty to and for African Americans by using various
sites of analysis. Using various sites of analysis, Price shows the
connection between criminal justice policies like the death penalty
and the political and legal rights of African Americans who are
tangentially connected to the criminal justice system through
familial and social networks. Drawing on black politics, legal and
political theory and narrative analysis, Price utilizes a
mixed-method approach that incorporates analysis of media reports,
capital jury selection and survey data, as well as original focus
group data. As the rates of incarceration trend upward, Black
politics scholars have focused on the impact of incarceration on
the voting strength of the black community. Local, and even
regional, narratives of African American politics and the death
penalty expose the fractures in American democracy that foment
perceptions of exclusion among blacks.
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