Abstract
The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, by Colin Dayan
Highlights
In the presented histories of slaves and prisoners, law, or more precisely, the rule of law is emphatically stripped from thelegal subject through a grammar of exceptionalism
While the narrative of American exceptionalism is neither an explicit nor a dominant theme of the author’s critiques, the examples of the ‘war on terror’ detainment apparatus and modern penal technologies are rich with its marks
In an effort to express this relation to law, Dayan, in later chapters, suggests and expands on the terminology of ‘negative personhood’, that is one who exists in a negative relation to law, or in other words one who is disabled by law
Summary
In the presented histories of slaves and prisoners, law, or more precisely, the rule of law is emphatically stripped from the (il)legal subject through a grammar of exceptionalism. The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons.
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