Southern mercy : empire and American civilization in juvenile reform, 1890-1944 /

Southern mercy : empire and American civilization in juvenile reform, 1890-1944 /

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Author / Creator:	Bickford, Annette Louise, 1964- author.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Reformatories -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies. Reformatories -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies. Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies. Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies. Racism -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies. Racism -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies. Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation. Race relations. Racism. Reformatories. North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies. North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies. North Carolina. Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10993077

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ISBN:	9781442645745 1442645741 9781442613980 144261398X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-277) 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."--

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