At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty

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Melynda J. Price (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky)

At the Cross

Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty

Melynda J. Price (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky)

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Oxford University Press Inc
10 September 2015

Ethical issues: capital punishment; Black & Asian studies; Penology & punishment; Criminal law & procedure

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement.

No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. At the Cross tells a story of the relationship between the death penalty and race in American politics that complicates the common belief that individual African Americans, especially poor African Americans, are more subject to the death penalty in criminal cases. The current death penalty regime operates quite differently than it did in the past.

The findings of this research demonstrate the the racial inequity in the meting out of death sentences has legal and political externalities that move beyond individual defendants to larger numbers of African Americans. At the Cross looks at the meaning of the death penalty to and for African Americans by using various sites of analysis.

Using various sites of analysis, Price shows the connection between criminal justice policies like the death penalty and the political and legal rights of African Americans who are tangentially connected to the criminal justice system through familial and social networks. Drawing on black politics, legal and political theory and narrative analysis, Price utilizes a mixed-method approach that incorporates analysis of media reports, capital jury selection and survey data, as well as original focus group data. As the rates of incarceration trend upward, Black politics scholars have focused on the impact of incarceration on the voting strength of the black community.

Local, and even regional, narratives of African American politics and the death penalty expose the fractures in American democracy that foment perceptions of exclusion among blacks.

By: Melynda J. Price (Associate Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law University of Kentucky)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 534g
ISBN: 9780190205539
ISBN 10: 0190205539
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 10 September 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Melynda Price is an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and the Director of African American and Africana Studies program Her research focuses on race, citizenship and the politics of punishment. She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from the University of Texas and a B.S. in Physics from Prairie View A&M University. She is a native of Houston, Texas.

Reviews for At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty

At the Cross is a well-written and important book that will be of interest to students and scholars of Black politics, history, and religion. * Christopher Cameron, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, National Political Science Review *