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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... color, they shared so much economic and political disadvantage. European immigrants adapted quickly to the racial segregation laws and policies widely enforced during that era. Their acceptance provided a shared feeling of superiority ...
... color line. Consider how legal fictions adapted by the court in Plessy v. Fer- guson in 1896 and Lochner v. New York in 1905 served to disadvan- tage both groups. In Lochner,2 the fiction was that employer and worker were each equally ...
... color. The analysis will include American 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 ...
... color: 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 ...
... color. Unfortunately, fundamental fairness continues to depend as much on American society as it does on the American legal system. In this bookI chose to focus on U.S. Supreme Court decisions for three reasons. First, as the court ...
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 |