Annette Louise Bickford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette Louise Bickford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Bickford |
| SIGNATURE | BICKFORD A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Southern Mercy
The Merciful Executioner
The literal and metaphoric defining of postbellum America drew on a politics of exclusion, giving wider force to struggles over national identity and citizenship encoded by race, and inflected by sexual discourses. Despite emancipation claims, men of African descent were increasingly excluded from a citizenship based on notions of “whiteness,” and this was reflected in the shift from the spectacle of vigilante lynching to the spectacular trial. I…
Imperial modernity, national identity and capital punishment in the Samarcand Arson Case, 1931
This article draws upon the fascinating and little known 1931 Samarcand Arson Case involving the possible execution of adolescent white female inmates at a juvenile reformatory in North Carolina. Marked by nationalist discourses, the spectacle generated by this case indicates much about how white New South advocates construed national life and sought to construct a white ‘civilised’ collective identity, defending their region from Northern charge…
Imperial modernity, national identity and capital punishment in the Samarcand Arson Case, 1931
This article draws upon the fascinating and little known 1931 Samarcand Arson Case involving the possible execution of adolescent white female inmates at a juvenile reformatory in North Carolina. Marked by nationalist discourses, the spectacle generated by this case indicates much about how white New South advocates construed national life and sought to construct a white ‘civilised’ collective identity, defending their region from Northern charge…
Imperial modernity, national identity and capital punishment in the Samarcand Arson Case, 1931
This article draws upon the fascinating and little known 1931 Samarcand Arson Case involving the possible execution of adolescent white female inmates at a juvenile reformatory in North Carolina. Marked by nationalist discourses, the spectacle generated by this case indicates much about how white New South advocates construed national life and sought to construct a white ‘civilised’ collective identity, defending their region from Northern charge…
The Merciful Executioner
The literal and metaphoric defining of postbellum America drew on a politics of exclusion, giving wider force to struggles over national identity and citizenship encoded by race, and inflected by sexual discourses. Despite emancipation claims, men of African descent were increasingly excluded from a citizenship based on notions of “whiteness,” and this was reflected in the shift from the spectacle of vigilante lynching to the spectacular trial. I…
Southern Mercy
Political science (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Arson (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Case studies (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works)