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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... 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 educa ...
... freedom at its greatest and lowest points. I wrote this book for those people who fought for my right to breathe free and for those people who want to learn more about them. I imagine the ... freedom. The meaning of freedom has xix Preface.
1607-Present Gloria J. Browne-Marshall. would one day know freedom. The meaning of freedom has evolved with each generation of people of color: African-Americans, Native Americans, Asians, and Latinos. A primary part of that evolution ...
... freedom are not necessarily the same things. Historically, social change, involving, for example, labor unions, immigrant rights, and gender equality, was forced upon this demo- cracy. These cases represent the centuries-long forced ...
... freedom. It is a process that ebbs and flows. There are those who lament the loss of the strong African-American communities segregation created. They would have us return to the “good old days” of “Jim Crow.” I refuse to regret my freedom ...
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 |