By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
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In this incisive work, Margaret A. Burnham traces how Jim Crow was enforced not only through violence and segregationist custom, but through law itself—carried out by the legal professionals who translated racial hierarchy into enforceable policy. Drawing on historical records and rigorous analysis, the book follows the institutions and actors who helped make discriminatory outcomes routine, revealing the mechanisms by which courts, statutes, and legal procedure became instruments of racial control. It examines themes of legal legitimacy, state power, and the moral responsibilities of those who administer justice, challenging readers to see “neutral” legal processes as sites of political struggle. Burnham’s sharply argued, research-driven style brings clarity to a complex history and underscores why understanding the legal execution of injustice remains essential to confronting its legacies today.
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paperback
Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
Published Jan 1, 2022
ISBN: 9780393867855
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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