Description: If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and throu Book and Mortar Record Store By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners -- Margaret A. Burnham 25.35 If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to today. Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard. Author: Margaret A. Burnham Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 09/27/2022 Pages: 352 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.33lbs Size: 9.36h x 6.41w x 1.34d ISBN: 9780393867855 Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist Review Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2022 pg. 12 Publishers Weekly 06/06/2022 Library Journal 07/08/2022 pg. 1 Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2022
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Book Title: Byhands Now Known : Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Discrimination, Black Studies (Global), General, United States / General
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Author: Margaret A. Burnham
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
