The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930-1955 - Tapa blanda

Niedermeier, Silvan

 
9781469652979: The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930-1955
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ISBN 10: 1469652978 ISBN 13: 9781469652979
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

Sinopsis

Available for the first time in English, The Color of the Third Degree uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy. In an effort to deter unruly white mobs, as well as oppress black communities, white southern law officers violently extorted confessions and testimony from black suspects and defendants in jail cells and police stations to secure speedy convictions. In response, black citizens and the NAACP fought to expose these brutal practices through individual action, local organizing, and litigation. In spite of these efforts, police torture remained a widespread, powerful form of racial control and suppression well into the late twentieth century.

The first historical study of police torture in the American South, Niedermeier draws attention to the willing acceptance of violent coercion by prosecutors, judges, and juries, and brings to light the deep historical roots of police violence against African Americans, one of the most urgent and distressing issues of our time.

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Silvan Niedermeier is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of history at Erfurt University.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1469652978
ISBN 13 
9781469652979
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Número de páginas
224
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