Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-PresentThis second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality. From the colonial period to the present, this book examines education, property ownership, voting rights, criminal justice, and the military as well as internationalism and civil liberties by analyzing the key court cases that established America’s racial system and demonstrating the impact of these court cases on American society. This edition also includes more on Asians, Native Americans, and Latinos. Race, Law, and American Society is highly accessible and thorough in its depiction of the role race has played, with the sanction of the U.S. Supreme Court, in shaping virtually every major American social institution. |
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... African Americans–Civil rights–Cases. 3. African Americans–Legal status, laws, etc.–Cases. 4. United States–Race relations. I. Title. KF4755.B76 2013 342.7308′73–dc23 2012033371 ISBN: 978-0-415-52213-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-52214-4 (pbk) ...
... White people desperately needed—and, I fear, still need—Blacks in a subordinate status in order to sustain the myriad fictions of White racial integrity. Ideologically, then, the statement “I am not Black” has functioned as a kind of ...
... African-Americans, Native Americans, Asians, and Latinos. A primary part of that evolution took place and still takes place in the courts. This book follows the legal fight against that designated “place” outside of the human family and ...
... African-American communities segregation created. They would have us return to the “good old days” of “Jim Crow.” I ... Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos are too often tentatively balanced on the whim of law enforcement ...
... African-American Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Los Angeles riot erupts in aftermath of Rodney King verdict acquitting White police officers of brutality despite video of the beating. Hopwood v. University of Texas Law ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 Race and the Struggle for Education in American Schools | 19 |
Chapter 3 Race Crime and Injustice | 51 |
Chapter 4 Civil Liberties and Racial Justice | 117 |
Chapter 5 Voting Rights and Restrictions | 177 |
Chapter 6 Property Rights and Ownership | 207 |
Chapter 7 Race and the Military | 251 |
Chapter 8 Race and Internationalism | 279 |
Selected Decisions oF the US Supreme Court | 315 |
Race Riots and Uprisings in the United States | 329 |
Persons Lynched by Race 18821920 | 331 |
US Military Conflicts | 333 |
Cases | 335 |
Notes | 341 |
Bibliography | 419 |
Index | 431 |