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Author Bickford, Annette Louise, 1964- author.

Title Southern mercy : empire and American civilization in juvenile reform, 1890-1944 / Annette Louise Bickford.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized, gendered, and linked to sexuality. Southern Mercy uses four historical examples of juvenile reformatories in North Carolina to explore how spectacles of mercy have influenced Southern modernity. Working through archival material pertaining to race and moral uplift, including rare photos from the private archives of Samarcand Manor (the State Home and Industrial Manor for Girls) and restricted archival records of reformatory racial policies, Annette Bickford examines the limits of emancipation, and the exclusions inherent in liberal humanism that distinguish racism in the contemporary "post-race" era."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Swamp Island; 2 The Samarcand Arson Case; 3 The Energy of Despair1; 4 The Merciful Executioner; 5 The Prodigal Son; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Reformatories -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Reformatories.
North Carolina.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Reformatories -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation.
Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Racism -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Racism.
Racism -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Race relations.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Bickford, Annette Louise, 1964- Southern mercy. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016] 9781442645745 1442645741 (OCoLC)950450933
ISBN 9781442663527 (electronic book)
1442663529 (electronic book)
9781442645745
1442645741
9781442613980
144261398X