How Long to Read The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons

How Long Does it Take to Read The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons by Colin Dayan

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Description

A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhood Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.

How long is The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons?

The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons by Colin Dayan is 364 pages long, and a total of 92,456 words.

This makes it 123% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons aloud.

What Reading Level is The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons?

The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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