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a law professor and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, and Austin Sarat, a law professor at Amherst College, combine the most severe criminal punishment with the bugaboo of racial class and prejudice in their book From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (New York University Press, May 2006). Lynch mobs represented wild outbursts of passion--emotion trumping reason--that were expended in a matter of hours. The gruesome spectacle of lynching may command the attention of Cullen's readers and provoke our most visceral response, yet I find that the principal issues that circulate through "The Black Christ" have little to do with identifying the underlying causes of lynching or exonerating black American victims of lynching or condemning white lynch mobs. |
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