Vagrant Nation

Author : Risa Goluboff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190262273

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Vagrant Nation by Risa Goluboff Pdf

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not only to maintain safety and order but also to enforce conventional standards of morality and propriety. A person could be arrested for sporting a beard, making a speech, or working too little. Yet by the end of the 1960s, vagrancy laws were discredited and American society was fundamentally transformed. What happened? In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff answers that question by showing how constitutional challenges to vagrancy laws shaped the multiple movements that made "the 1960s." Vagrancy laws were so broad and flexible that they made it possible for the police to arrest anyone out of place: Beats and hippies; Communists and Vietnam War protestors; racial minorities and civil rights activists; gays, single women, and prostitutes. As hundreds of these "vagrants" and their lawyers challenged vagrancy laws in court, the laws became a flashpoint for debates about radically different visions of order and freedom. Goluboff's compelling account of those challenges rewrites the history of the civil rights, peace, gay rights, welfare rights, sexual, and cultural revolutions. As Goluboff links the human stories of those arrested to the great controversies of the time, she makes coherent an era that often seems chaotic. She also powerfully demonstrates how ordinary people, with the help of lawyers and judges, can change the meaning of the Constitution. The Supreme Court's 1972 decision declaring vagrancy laws unconstitutional continues to shape conflicts between police power and constitutional rights, including clashes over stop-and-frisk, homelessness, sexual freedom, and public protests. Since the downfall of vagrancy law, battles over what, if anything, should replace it, like battles over the legacy of the sixties transformations themselves, are far from over.

Author : Sal Nicolazzo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300255706

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Vagrant Figures by Sal Nicolazzo Pdf

How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distributionIn this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo offers a prehistory of police legitimacy in a period that predates the establishment of the modern police force. She argues that narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices shaped not only police and legal activity of the period, but also public conceptions of police power. Her extensive research delves into law and literature on both sides of the Atlantic, tracking the centrality of vagrancy in establishing police power as a form of sovereignty crucial to settler colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. The first book in several generations to address policing and vagrancy in the eighteenth century, and the first in the field to center race and empire in its account of literary vagrancy, Nicolazzo’s work is a significant contribution to the field of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies.

Author : Risa Lauren Goluboff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199768448

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Vagrant Nation by Risa Lauren Goluboff Pdf

"People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy. As Beats, hippies, war protesters, Communists, racial minorities, civil rights activists, prostitutes, single women, poor people, and sexual minorities challenged vagrancy laws, the laws became a shared constitutional target for clashes over radically different visions of the nation's future"--

Author : Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479845255

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Vagrants and Vagabonds by Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan Pdf

The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States Vagrants. Vagabonds. Hoboes. Identified by myriad names, the homeless and geographically mobile have been with us since the earliest periods of recorded history. In the early days of the United States, these poor migrants – consisting of everyone from work-seekers to runaway slaves – populated the roads and streets of major cities and towns. These individuals were a part of a social class whose geographical movements broke settlement laws, penal codes, and welfare policies. This book documents their travels and experiences across the Atlantic world, excavating their life stories from the records of criminal justice systems and relief organizations. Vagrants and Vagabonds examines the subsistence activities of the mobile poor, from migration to wage labor to petty theft, and how local and state municipal authorities criminalized these activities, prompting extensive punishment. Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan examines the intertwined legal constructions, experiences, and responses to these so-called “vagrants,” arguing that we can glean important insights about poverty and class in this period by paying careful attention to mobility. This book charts why and how the itinerant poor were subject to imprisonment and forced migration, and considers the relationship between race and the right to movement and residence in the antebellum US. Ultimately, Vagrants and Vagabonds argues that poor migrants, the laws designed to curtail their movements, and the people charged with managing them, were central to shaping everything from the role of the state to contemporary conceptions of community to class and labor status, the spread of disease, and punishment in the early American republic.

Author : Harvard Law Review
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610277884

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Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 7 - May 2017 by Harvard Law Review Pdf

Author : Andrew Krinks
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479823840

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White Property, Black Trespass by Andrew Krinks Pdf

"White Property, Black Trespass traces the eurochristian, settler colonial, racial capitalist history and present of police power, re-narrating the mass criminalization of Black and economically dispossessed peoples as a religious project that "saves" the pseudo-sacred order of whiteness and property by exiling those who trespass against it to carceral hell"--

Author : Charles McCrary
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226817941

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Sincerely Held by Charles McCrary Pdf

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States. “Sincerely held religious belief” is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Court to local controversies. The “sincerity test” of religious belief has become a cornerstone of US jurisprudence, framing what counts as legitimate grounds for First Amendment claims in the eyes of the law. In Sincerely Held, Charles McCrary provides an original account of how sincerely held religious belief became the primary standard for determining what legally counts as authentic religion. McCrary skillfully traces the interlocking histories of American sincerity, religion, and secularism starting in the mid-nineteenth century. He analyzes a diverse archive, including Herman Melville’s novel The Confidence-Man, vice-suppressing police, Spiritualist women accused of being fortune-tellers, eclectic conscientious objectors, secularization theorists, Black revolutionaries, and anti-LGBTQ litigants. Across this history, McCrary reveals how sincerity and sincerely held religious belief developed as technologies of secular governance, determining what does and doesn’t entitle a person to receive protections from the state. This fresh analysis of secularism in the United States invites further reflection on the role of sincerity in public life and religious studies scholarship, asking why sincerity has come to matter so much in a supposedly “post-truth” era.

Author : Stephen Eide
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538159583

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Homelessness in America by Stephen Eide Pdf

The last thirty years have witnessed an urban renaissance in America. Major cities have managed to drive down the murder rate, improve the schools, restore the built environment, and revitalize their economies. Middle class families are putting down roots in neighborhoods once given up for dead. But solutions to homelessness have eluded even the most successful cities. While the South Bronx was once synonymous across the globe for “slum,” now, San Francisco and Los Angeles are just as internationally notorious for their homelessness crises. Indeed, the same cities with the worst homelessness crises rank among America’s most successful. One of the crisis’ more perplexing features is how cities that have met with so much success with respect to economic development, crime and public education have failed to even ease their homelessness crisis, much less end it. In Homelessness in America, Stephen Eide examines the history, governmental and private responses, and future prospects of this intractable challenge. The “chronic” nature of the challenge should be understood, he argues, by reference to American history and American ideals. The history of homelessness is bound up with industrialization and urbanization, the closing of the West, the Great Depression, and the post WWII decline and subsequent revival of great American cities. Though we’ve used different terms (“tramp” “hobo” “bum”) at other times, something like homelessness has always been with us and the debate over causes and solutions has always involved conflicts over fundamental values. After explaining why homelessness persists in America and correcting popular misconceptions about the issue, Eide offers concrete recommendations for how we can do better for the homeless population. Homelessness in America engages readers by answering the most common questions their audience brings to the topic and exploring other questions that are no less important for being not as commonly asked. Homelessness intersects with multiple other policy areas: education, urban development, criminal justice reform, mental health. By exploring the intersection of homelessness with so many other policy areas, this book aspires to provide a comprehensive account of the challenge.

Author : Yale Law Journal
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610277945

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Yale Law Journal: Volume 125, Number 6 - April 2016 by Yale Law Journal Pdf

This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the sixth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue's contents include: Article, "Administrative Forbearance," by Daniel T. Deacon Essay, "The New Public," by Sarah A. Seo The student contributions are: Note, "How To Trim a Christmas Tree: Beyond Severability and Inseverability for Omnibus Statutes," by Robert L. Nightingale Note, "Border Checkpoints and Substantive Due Process: Abortion in the Border Zone," by Kate Huddleston Comment, "The State's Right to Property Under International Law," by Peter Tzeng Quality digital editions include active Contents for the issue and for individual articles, linked footnotes, active URLs in notes, and proper digital and Bluebook presentation from the original edition.

Author : William Combe,Thomas Rolandson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : NYPL:33433081602561

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The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax by William Combe,Thomas Rolandson Pdf

Author : Joshua C. Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231543088

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From Head Shops to Whole Foods by Joshua C. Davis Pdf

In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts—including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers—brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited growth, and democratic workplaces, these activist entrepreneurs offered alternatives to conventional profit-driven corporate business models. By the middle of the 1970s, thousands of these enterprises operated across the United States—but only a handful survive today. Some, such as Whole Foods Market, have abandoned their quest for collective political change in favor of maximizing profits. Vividly portraying the struggles, successes, and sacrifices of these unlikely entrepreneurs, From Head Shops to Whole Foods writes a new history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists embraced small businesses in a way few historians have considered. The book challenges the widespread but mistaken idea that activism and political dissent are inherently antithetical to participation in the marketplace. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption, social enterprise, buying local, and mission-driven business, while also showing how today’s companies have adopted the language—but not often the mission—of liberation and social change.

Author : William Combe
Publisher : Adam, Stevenson, [187-?]
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590251035

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Doctor Syntax : His Three Tours in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, of a Wife by William Combe Pdf

Author : William Combe,John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : English poetry
ISBN : PSU:000006247416

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Doctor Syntax's Three Tours by William Combe,John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Socialism
ISBN : UOM:39015004939271

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The New Nation by Edward Bellamy Pdf

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Bible
ISBN : PRNC:32101063612046

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Bible Studies by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf