Living with Infamy: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Citizenship

by Pippa Holloway

Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the post-war South, white southern Democrats expanded the usage of laws disfranchising for crimes of infamy in order to deny African Americans the suffrage rights due them as citizens, employing historical similarities between the legal statuses of slaves and convicts as justification. At the same...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199976082
• ISBN13: 9780199976089
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"