Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System
Edited by Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
More than two dozen contributors examine how the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and policy responses to the COVID-19 virus affected crime and justice in the United States.
Edited by Roddrick Colvin, Angela Dwyer and Sulaimon Giwa
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
In this edited volume contributors from around the world ponder the complicated relationships between LGBTQ+ communities and police and law enforcement using intersectional analysis of innovative topics, contemporary issues, and individual experiences.
Black Americans in Mourning chronicles the grief felt by African Americans after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book features prominent men and women, such as Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, and Elizabeth Keckley, as well as the hard-to-find voices of lesser-known Black people. The collective mourning of Black Americans set the stage for Lincoln's glorification.
As the first book to document the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the state of Illinois, this inviting book maps the pedacito de patria (little piece of home) that many Puerto Ricans have carved from the bitter hardships faced in Illinois.
The Life Experiences of Boston’s Founding Street Gang Members
by Paul F. Joyce
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Through interviews, analysis, and life-course theory, retired Boston police officer and criminologist Paul F. Joyce uncovers the long-term impact of gang membership and explores which intervention methods can make a difference in the lives of current gang members.
Pulling off the Sheets tells the previously obscured history of the Second Ku Klux Klan which formed in deep southern Illinois in the early 1920s. This important historical account sets out to expose the lasting impact of the Klan on race relations today.
This Gilded Age social history of death investigations in the urban Midwest examines the role of St. Louis coroners and how ordinary people informed coroners’ investigations and verdicts. Case studies explore the lives of the deceased as well as their families and communities, press coverage of the deaths, and the coroners themselves.
Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois
by Larry A. McClellan
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Onward to Chicago charts the evolution of the northeastern Illinois freedom network and shows how, despite its small Black community, Chicago emerged as a point of refuge. While traditional histories of the Underground Railroad in Illinois start in 1839, and focus largely on the romanticized tales of white men, Larry A. McClellan reframes the story, not only introducing readers to earlier freedom seekers, but also illustrating that those who bravely aided them were Black and white, men and women.
Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, yet his personal views on race have long been debated. Since his death, his legend has been shadowed by the mystery of his true stance toward non-whites. While Lincoln took many actions to fight slavery throughout his political career, his famously crafted speeches can be interpreted in different ways: at times his words suggest personal bigotry, but at other times he sounds like an enemy of racists. In Lincoln and Race, Richard Striner takes on one of the most sensitive subjects of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, exploring in depth Lincoln’s mixed record and writings on the issue of race.
In the Midwest’s largest city, Latinos have been fighting for political representation for more than half a century. In this exploration of urban politics in Chicago, Wilfredo Cruz shows for the first time how Latinos went from being ignored by the Irish-controlled political machine to becoming a respected constituency.
A Thousand Years of Contested Histories in the Heartland
by Michael C. Batinski
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Forgetting and the Forgotten details the nature of how a community forged its story against outsiders. Historian Michael C. Batinski explores the habits of forgetting that enable communities to create an identity based on silencing competing narratives.
Author Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women’s rhetoric. This recovery of British women’s performative and written roles as speakers, spectators, authors, and readers in diverse venues counters the traditional masculine model of European Enlightenment rhetoric.
Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age
by Michelle C. Smith
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Utopian Genderscapes focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—who in response to industrialization experimented with radical social reform in the antebellum United States. Foremost among the avenues of reform was the place and substance of women’s work. Author Michelle C. Smith seeks in the communities’ rhetorics of teleology, choice, and exceptionalism the lived consequences of the communities' lofty goals for women members.
In this timely and important collection, editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of contributors in the fields of criminal justice and criminology, sociology, journalism, and communications. These chapters show #MeToo is not only a support network of victims’ voices and testimonies but also a revolutionary interrogation of policies, power imbalances, and ethical failures that resulted in decades-long cover-ups and institutions structured to ensure continued abuse. This book reveals #MeToo as so much more than a hashtag.
A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
by Diana L. Dretske
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
This book, the most intensive examination of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry since the regiment’s history was published in 1887 centers on immigrants from the British Isles who wished to be citizens of a country at war with itself. Far removed from their native homelands, they found new promise in rural Illinois. These men, neighbors along the quiet Stateline Road in Lake County, decide to join the fighting at its most dangerous hour. The bonds of war become then the bonds of their new national identity.
