By Clara S. Lewis
ISBN-10: 0813562309
ISBN-13: 9780813562308
ISBN-10: 0813562317
ISBN-13: 9780813562315
ISBN-10: 0813562325
ISBN-13: 9780813562322
Why will we recognize each gory crime scene aspect approximately such sufferers as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and but nearly not anything in regards to the overwhelming majority of alternative hate crime sufferers? Now that federal anti-hate-crimes legislation were handed, why has the variety of those crimes now not declined considerably? to reply to such questions, Clara S. Lewis demanding situations us to reassess our knowing of hate crimes. In doing so, she increases startling matters in regards to the trajectory of civil and minority rights.
Tough on Hate is the 1st ebook to check the cultural politics of hate crimes either inside of and past the legislation. Drawing on quite a lot of sources—including own interviews, unarchived records, tv information proclaims, legislative debates, and presidential speeches—the e-book calls consciousness to a aggravating irony: the sympathetic consciousness paid to convinced surprising hate crime murders additional legitimizes an already pervasive unwillingness to behave at the pressing civil rights problems with our time. Worse nonetheless, it finds the frequent attractiveness of principles approximately distinction, tolerance, and crime that paintings opposed to destiny development on behalf of traditionally marginalized groups.
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The ADL was moved to action due to its leadership’s deeply felt conviction that even the pettiest, most mundane, routine bias-motivated unpleasantries undermine the quality of life and impede the pursuit of happiness for members of historically marginalized groups. While undeniably awful, these kinds of spectacular killings were somewhat beside the point. A second key lesson from the ADL’s early efforts is the necessity of acknowledging the impact of the past on current social relations that produce hate crimes, what might be described as maintaining a historical and sociological consciousness.
Narratives about hate crimes from this period proffer a useful vantage point from which to critically interrogate the marked effects of neoliberalism on ideas about crime and about difference. They also reveal the limited agency advocates exert over defining the meaning of social problems once popular culture begins to draw these problems into its skewed purview. In the interest of challenging readers to question their current understanding of hate crimes, this chapter introduces a host of historically specific shifts in the term’s meaning.
In its telling, this is also the story of the fraught entanglement of civil rights and crime during a period of neoliberal reforms. Narratives about hate crimes from this period proffer a useful vantage point from which to critically interrogate the marked effects of neoliberalism on ideas about crime and about difference. They also reveal the limited agency advocates exert over defining the meaning of social problems once popular culture begins to draw these problems into its skewed purview. In the interest of challenging readers to question their current understanding of hate crimes, this chapter introduces a host of historically specific shifts in the term’s meaning.
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