Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, November 2016. Paper Back. From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized..... More