{"product_id":"racial-reckoning-renee-c-romano-9780674976030","title":"Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials. But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America's racist past? \u003ci\u003eRacial Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e investigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit these decades-old crimes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] timely and significant work...Romano brilliantly demystifies the false binary of villainous white men like Beckwith or Edgar Ray Killen who represent vestiges of a violent racial past with a more enlightened color-blind society...Considering the current partisan and racial divide over the prosecution of police shootings of unarmed black men, this book is a must-read for historians, legal analysts, and journalists interested in understanding the larger meanings of civil rights or racially explosive trials in America.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chanelle Rose, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Renee C. Romano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674976037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674976030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Renee C. Romano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054604775679,"sku":"9780674976030","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd1e49f0-b654-4a79-9307-c4e3da4981e6.jpg?v=1685030915","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/racial-reckoning-renee-c-romano-9780674976030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}