Americans have too much respect for law, as if all law, any law, were handed down on Mount Sinai, violation of which licensed the harshest penalty. The long social revolution against American punitiveness entails the overthrow of this vindictive legal formalism.https://twitter.com/michmack01/status/1009788092490715141 …
Apart from Dr King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, what greatest hits of this Af-American anti-legalist tradition leap to mind?
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There's such a range (legal scholarship, fiction, non-fiction, multitudes of genres and sub-genres). Folks to look out for: Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, Alexander Wehelieye, Simone Browne, Fred Moten, late W.E.B Dubois, James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Angela Davis. (1/2)
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No worries! Hope you get the chance to check some of them out.
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But such a short list doesn't do justice to such a long tradition, you know? (2/2)
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