University of Sussex
Browse
Execution of Percy Clifford.edrevised.pdf (385.48 kB)

Race, gender and bourgeois respectability: the execution of Percy Clifford, 1914

Download (385.48 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 15:54 authored by Lizzie SealLizzie Seal, Alexa NealeAlexa Neale
This article is a microhistory of the capital case of Percy Clifford, a man of colour who was hanged for the murder of his wife Maud in England in 1914. It examines both what this case reveals about his life as a man of colour in Edwardian England and the racialised ways in which he was portrayed in the criminal justice system. It argues that understandings of bourgeois respectability, which were interwoven with notions of race, gender, class and sexuality, were significant to how the case was portrayed and interpreted.

Funding

Race, Racialisation and the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1900-65; G2062; LEVERHULME TRUST; RPG-2016-352

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Irish Jurist

ISSN

0021-1273

Publisher

Thomson Reuters (Professional) Ireland Ltd

Volume

60

Page range

144-153

Department affiliated with

  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre Publications
  • Crime Research Centre Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-11-19

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-23

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-11-13

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC