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"Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree, one of the country's foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of creating a more just legal system for all. Working from years of research and based on his own classes and experiences with law enforcement, the author illuminates the steps needed to embark on the long journey toward racial and legal equality for all Americans"--

Introduction : bridging the black-white divide /Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat --Racial fakery and the next postracial reconciliation in the age of Dolezal /Matthew Pratt Guterl --Race and science : preconciliation as reconciliation /Osagie K. Obasogie --From perceiving injustice to achieving racial justice : interrogating the impact of racial brokers on racial antagonism and racial reconciliation /Carla Shedd --Weaponized empathy : emotion and the limits of racial reconciliation in policing /Naomi Murakawa --Black deaths matter, too : doing racial reconciliation after the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina /Valerie C. Cooper --The 'post-national' racial state, domestication, and multiscalar organizing in the new millennium /Kirstie A. Dorr.

Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as "the new death penalty." Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its social, cultural, political, and legal meanings. What justifies the turn to life imprisonment? How should we understand the fact that this penalty is used disproportionately against racial minorities? What are the most promising avenues for limiting, reforming, or eliminating life without parole sentences in the United States? Contributors explore the structure of life without parole sentences and the impact they have on prisoners, where the penalty fits in modern theories of punishment, and prospects for (as well as challenges to) reform.

Introduction : toward and beyond the abolition of capital punishment / Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat. Pt. I. Assessing the prospects for abolition. The executioner's waning defenses : the eroding defense of the executioner / Michael L. Radelet -- Blinded by science on the road to abolition? / Simon A. Cole and Jay D. Aronson -- Abolition in the U.S.A. by 2050 : on political capital and ordinary acts of resistance / Bernard E. Harcourt -- The beginning of the end? / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker -- Rocked but still rolling : the enduring institution of capital punishment in historical and comparative perspective / Michael McCann and David T. Johnson -- Pt. II. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox / Deborah W. Denno -- Perfect execution : abolitionism and the paradox of lethal injection / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- No improvement over electrocution or even a bullet? : lethal injection and the meaning of speed and reliability in the modern execution process / Jürgen Martschukat -- Pt. III. Putting the death penalty in context. Torture, war, and capital punishment : linkages and missed connections / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- Making difference : modernity and the political dimensions of death / Peter Fitzpatrick

Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an interdisciplinary cast of experts in reflecting on this disturbing issue. Insightful original essays.

A New Juvenile Justice System aims at nothing less than a complete reform of the existing system: not minor change or even significant overhaul, but the replacement of the existing system with a different vision. The authors in this volume-academics, activists, researchers, and those who serve in the existing system-all respond in this collection to the question of what the system should be. Uniformly, they agree that an ideal system should be centered around the principle of child well-being and the goal of helping kids to achieve productive lives as citizens and members of their communities. Rather than the existing system, with its punitive, destructive, undermining effect and uneven application by race and gender, these authors envision a system responsive to the needs of youth as well as to the community's legitimate need for public safety. How, they ask, can the ideals of equality, freedom, liberty, and self-determination transform the system? How can we improve the odds that children who have been labeled as "delinquent" can make successful transitions to adulthood? And how can we create a system that relies on proven, family-focused interventions and creates opportunities for positive youth development? Drawing upon interdisciplinary work as well as on-the-ground programs and experience, the authors sketch out the broad parameters of such a system. Providing the principles, goals, and concrete means to achieve them, this volume imagines using our resources wisely and well to invest in all children and their potential to contribute and thrive in our society

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On Redress for Racial Injustice -- Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege -- Introduction -- Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy -- Race Preferences and Race Privileges -- A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality -- Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State -- Introduction -- The Case for Reparations -- Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations -- The Constitutionality of Black Reparations -- The Theory of Restitution -- Reparations to African Americans? -- Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress -- Introduction -- ''A Day of Reckoning'' -- Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith -- The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America -- The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism -- The Rise of the Reparations Movement -- Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention -- Introduction -- Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery -- Railroads, Race, and Reparations -- Reparations -- Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty -- Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies -- Introduction -- The Politics of Racial Reparations -- The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans -- The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations -- Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow -- What's Next? -- The Reparations Movement -- Reparations -- Tulsa Reparations -- Race for Power -- Documents -- Introduction -- Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions -- Section 2. State Legislation -- Section 3. Municipal Resolutions -- Section 4. Advocacy and Activism -- Section 5. Case Studies of Redress -- Section 6. Lawsuits -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index