Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power. Michael Tigar

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      Copyright © 2018 by Michael E. Tigar

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      Names: Tigar, Michael E., 1941– author.

      Title: Mythologies of state and monopoly power / Michael E. Tigar.

      Description: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2018.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018038348 (print) | LCCN 2018039071 (ebook) | ISBN 9781583677445 (trade) | ISBN 9781583677452 (institutional) | ISBN 9781583677421 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781583677438 (hardcover)

      Subjects: LCSH: Law—United States. | Justice, Administration of—United States. | Human rights—United States.

      Classification: LCC KF384 (ebook) | LCC KF384 .T54 2018 (print) | DDC 340/.1140973—dc23

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      Contents

       Introduction: Mythologies, Mental Shortcuts, Rationalizations, Impressions

       1. Mythologies of Racism

       ~ Fear, Loathing, and Myth I: The Japanese Internment and Manipulated Fear

       ~ Fear, Loathing, and Myth II: “Separate but Equal” and the Land Where Supreme Court Justices Dwell

       ~ The Last Gasp of “Separate but Equal”

       ~ The Persistence of Racist Mythologies

       2. Mythologies of Criminal Justice

       ~ Palladiums and Citadels

       ~ Mass Incarceration and Social Control

       ~ The Mythology of Fair Trial

       ~ Plea Bargains: The Mythology of Consent

       ~ Point: Orlando Hall, the “Other,” and Ineffective Counsel

       Objectively Ineffective

       ~ Counterpoint: Clarence Darrow Confronts Racist Mythology

       ~ Albert Camus’s The Stranger: Mythologies of Trial and Colonial Mentality

       ~ Battling for Defendant Rights

       3. Mythologies of Free Expression

       ~ The Marketplace of Ideas

       ~ State Repression

       ~ Who Owns the Streets?

       ~ But for Colporteurs, Maybe Anything Goes

       ~ Abolishing “Feudalism”: A Mythology of Freedom

       ~ The Evanescence of Custom

       ~ SLAPP-Happy: Fries with That

       ~ A Lawsuit Lovely as a Tree

       ~ Radio Days: The Property Norm Devours the Mythology of Free Expression

       ~ As Seen on TV

       ~ The Pentagon Papers: Privatizing John Adams’s “General Knowledge”

       4. Mythologies of Worker Rights

       ~ Who Is Intimidating Whom?

       ~ Contract, Conspiracy, and Worker Consent

       ~ The Nineteenth-Century Worker in the Courts

       ~Shakespeare on Worker Consent

       ~ Smithfield Redux: Community Organizing and Employer Consent

       ~ Sickening Opposition to Workers’ Rights

       5. Mythologies of International Human Rights

       ~ The Kiobel Case: “United States Law … Does Not Rule the World”

       ~ O Tortured Workers, Won’t You Make Me a Mercedes-Benz

       Notes

       Index