Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948Black and white Americans have occupied separate spaces since the days of "the big house" and "the quarters." But the segregation and racialization of American society was not a natural phenomenon that "just happened." The decisions, enacted into laws, that kept the races apart and restricted blacks to less desirable places sprang from legal reasoning which argued that segregated spaces were right, reasonable, and preferable to other arrangements. In this book, David Delaney explores the historical intersections of race, place, and the law. Drawing on court cases spanning more than a century, he examines the moves and countermoves of attorneys and judges who participated in the geopolitics of slavery and emancipation; in the development of Jim Crow segregation, which effectively created apartheid laws in many cities; and in debates over the "doctrine of changed conditions," which challenged the legality of restrictive covenants and private contracts designed to exclude people of color from white neighborhoods. This historical investigation yields new insights into the patterns of segregation that persist in American society today. |
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... owners . Neighboring property owners were given veto rights with respect to the occupancy of adjacent lots . In this case the neighbors vetoed the move and called the chief of police . The tenant was forced to move out , but the owner ...
... owners that obligates them to restrict the uses to which the real property covered in the contract will be put . It ... owners of adjoining or neighboring lots or between successive owners of the same lot . The restriction may be affixed ...
... owner or a group of owners might re- quest that a judge declare a covenant void . That is , they might seek judicial cancellation of the restriction in order to remove a " cloud " from the title . Or holders of one or more of the ...
Contents
Geographies of Slavery and Emancipation | 29 |
Legal Reasoning and the Geopolitics of NineteenthCentury | 55 |
The Geopolitics of Jim Crow | 93 |
Copyright | |
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