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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... Virginia. Twenty Africans arrive by ship to Jamestown Colony. Virginia's House of Burgesses, America's first legislative body, holds its first meeting. The Mayflower lands. Slave revolt in New York City. Slave revolt in South Carolina ...
... Virginia court decides Blacks lack free will to make choices of any kind. The Civil War begins. President Lincoln delivers Emancipation Proclamation speech freeing slaves in the South. Poor Whites in New York City murder Blacks during ...
... Virginia. State cannot restrict marriage based on race. Lee v. Washington. State cannot segregate inmates by race. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in Black communities nationwide following ...
... Virginia Company of London. Earlier, in 1590, the fledgling Roanoke colony disappeared under mysterious cir- cumstances. To survive and become profitable, the new American colony of Jamestown would require a substantial number of people ...
... Virginia colony protected their rights with race-based legislation.27 As profits increased, legal protec- tions for Africans decreased.28 Enslaving Africans was considered a better investment than using servants.29 By the 1630s, the ...
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 |