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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 40
... colonial times to the present contains major revisions. Throughout, she places 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 ...
... colonial laws, state statutes, and landmark Supreme Court cases of the nine- teenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. In examining these laws and cases, the reader will discern the great impact racism has had on American society ...
... Colony. History shows that racial oppression was not predestined. Chattel slavery need not have taken place. Native lands need not have been stolen. It was more greed and xenophobia and the power to enact and enforce racist laws which ...
... Colony founded in Powhatan Indian territory of 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 ...
... The analysis will include American colonial laws, landmark Supreme Court cases from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and political controversies involving race, from slavery to xxxviii INTRODUCTION.
Contents
1 | |
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 |