1. Towards a historical and sociological analysis of the criminalization of
racial violence; 2. Progressive criminalization at the heart of darkness?:
the legal response to the victimization of slaves in the colonial and
antebellum South; 3. 'Social equality is not a subject to be legislated
upon': the rise and fall of federal pro-black criminalization policy,
1865-1909; 4. 'We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt
with': campaigning for criminalization reform in the long civil rights
movement, 1909-68; 5. Criminalizing racial hatred, legitimizing racial
inequality: hate-crime laws and the new politics of pro-black
criminalization; 6. Conclusion: criminalization reform and egalitarian
social change - an uneasy relationship.
