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In the Shadow of the Gallows

Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

By: Jeannine Marie DeLombard

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In the Shadow of the Gallows

Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

By: Jeannine Marie DeLombard

From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders—even slaves—appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists—most notably, Frederick Douglass—could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

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457

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206339

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9780812206333

Surviving Mexico

Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century

By: Celeste González de Bustamante,Jeannine E. Relly

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Surviving Mexico

Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century

By: Celeste González de Bustamante,Jeannine E. Relly

Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Today the country is one of the most dangerous in the world in which to be a reporter. In Surviving Mexico, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine the networks of political power, business interests, and organized crime that threaten and attack Mexican journalists, who forge ahead despite the risks. Amid the crackdown on drug cartels, overall violence in Mexico has increased, and journalists covering the conflict have grown more vulnerable. But it is not just criminal groups that want reporters out of the way. Government forces also attack journalists in order to shield corrupt authorities and the very criminals they are supposed to be fighting. Meanwhile some news organizations, enriched by their ties to corrupt government officials and criminal groups, fail to support their employees. In some cases, journalists must wait for a “green light” to publish not from their editors but from organized crime groups. Despite seemingly insurmountable constraints, journalists have turned to one another and to their communities to resist pressures and create their own networks of resilience. Drawing on a decade of rigorous research in Mexico, González de Bustamante and Relly explain how journalists have become their own activists and how they hold those in power accountable.

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305

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University of Texas Press

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1477323384

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9781477323380

Stone Mirrors

The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

By: Jeannine Atkins

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The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

By: Jeannine Atkins

A biographical novel in verse of a half Native American, half African American female sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, working in the years right after the Civil War"--

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176

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Simon and Schuster

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1481459058

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9781481459051

Friends Forever

The One About the Episodes

By: Gary Susman,Jeannine Dillon,Bryan Cairns

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Friends Forever

The One About the Episodes

By: Gary Susman,Jeannine Dillon,Bryan Cairns

An authorized episode guide of the hit-television show Friends, with an insider look at cult-favorite episodes, exclusive photos, and interviews. The beloved show Friends introduced the world to six young New Yorkers living together, falling in love, breaking up, and getting into hilarious shenanigans, which became an instant classic formula that inspired dozens of “hangout sitcoms” long after the show’s reign. But no sitcom has ever come close to the series that started it all, spawning iconic looks like “the Rachel” and timeless catchphrases like “How you doin’?” while creating a cultural sensation that catapulted the cast members to instant mega-stardom. Throughout the show’s ten- season run, viewers watched Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Ross, Chandler, and Joey navigate their twenties and thirties with unwavering friendship, determination, and, of course, plenty of sarcasm. Friends Forever takes fans back to the set where it all began with exclusive photos of the sitcom that won four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, eleven People’s Choice Awards, and a Golden Globe for Jennifer Aniston for Best Lead Actress in a Television Series. This fully illustrated episode guide will treat readers to nostalgic flashbacks of the top one hundred episodes and sneak peeks of how popularly referenced lines from the show came to be. Friends Forever also boasts new interviews with show creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman on how the show got its start and set designer John Shaffner who reveals his inspirations behind the iconic looks behind Monica’s and Rachel’s apartment and Central Perk. It’s no wonder why Friends is often called one of the best sitcoms of all time.

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HarperCollins

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0063011115

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9780063011113

Friends Forever [25th Anniversary Ed:] the One about the Episodes

By: Gary Susman,Jeannine Dillon,Bryan Cairns

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Friends Forever [25th Anniversary Ed:] the One about the Episodes

By: Gary Susman,Jeannine Dillon,Bryan Cairns

A celebration of the beloved sitcom twenty-five years after it first aired in 1994. Friends has withstood the test of time, and this book offers fans of every generation a deeper look into what makes it so special--and so timeliess. Includes commentary on the top ten episodes for each of the ten seasons, original stills from the series, plus new insights from the show's creators, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, and the production designer, John Schaffner. -- Adapted from dust jacket flap.

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253

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Harper Design

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0062976443

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9780062976444

Book's by Jeannine Dillon

In the Shadow of the Gallows

In the Shadow of the Gallows

Surviving Mexico

Surviving Mexico

Stone Mirrors

Stone Mirrors

Friends Forever

Friends Forever

Friends Forever [25th Anniversary Ed:] the One about the Episodes

Friends Forever [25th Anniversary Ed:] the One about the Episodes

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