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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... Carolina. Slaves accused of conspiracy in New York City are tor- tured and murdered. Somerset v. Steuart. British High Court decides slavery issue. Declaration of Independence. America's Revolutionary War begins. Commonwealth v ...
... Carolina, race riot takes place. First Pan-African Conference is held. Race riots in New York and New Orleans occur. Niagara, Canada, is site of interracial strategy meeting led by W. E. B. DuBois to plan challenge to Plessy v. Ferguson ...
... travel ofPaul Robeson. Students at North Carolina A&T College begin sit-in protests of segregated businesses. 1960 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is started at Shaw xxx TIMELINE OF SELECTED CASES AND EvENTS.
... Carolina provides insight into the nexus between laws, racism, and the colonies' economic dependence on slave-based labor: WHEREAS, the plantations and estates of this Province cannot be well and sufficiently managed and brought into ...
... those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.55 In states such as South Carolina, Blacks outnumbered Whites, thus oveRview of Race and the Law in ameRica 7.
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 |