{"product_id":"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? Racial Reckoning 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\n\n\u003cp\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.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e—Chanelle Rose, American Historical Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45394649350223,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1120.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780674976030","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}