GOV/WGS 378: Race, Gender, and the Law
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"... the ladder of law has no top and no bottom"
- Bob Dylan, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
"In Paterson that’s just the way things go
If you’re black you might as well not show - up on the street
’Less you wanna draw the heat"
- Bob Dylan, "Hurricane"
Selected Readings - Print Books and Ebooks
Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, race, and the criminal justice system by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781479894291Publication Date: 2015also available in print at HV 9950 .D425 2015
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Call Number: E 185.86 .L69 2016ISBN: 9780316312479Publication Date: 2016
The Color of Law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Call Number: E 185.61 .R8185 2017ISBN: 9781631492853Publication Date: 2017
Women, Crime, and Justice: balancing the scales by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781118793442Publication Date: 2016
Gender Nonconformity and the Law by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780300217858Publication Date: 2016also available in print at KF 3467 .Y875 2016
Doing Justice: a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law by Call Number: Browsing KF 8700 .B43 2019ISBN: 9780525521129Publication Date: 2019
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