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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807861903321

Autore

Tuitt Patricia <1961->

Titolo

Race, law, resistance / / Patricia Tuitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or., : GlassHouse Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-37643-8

1-283-60502-3

9786612376436

9786613917478

1-135-31138-2

1-84314-605-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Disciplina

342.0873

342.410873

Soggetti

Race discrimination - Law and legislation

Discrimination in justice administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-125) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; RACE, LAW, RESISTANCE; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One The Slave, the Protagonist and the Law; Chapter Two Fanon and Causation; Chapter Three Institutional Racism and the Reasonable Man; Chapter Four Discovering the 'New' Europe; Chapter Five Postcolonial Theory at the Moment of Jugement; Chapter Six Unsanctioned Violence; Table of Cases and Documents; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Race, Law, Resistance is an original and important contribution to current theoretical debates on race and law. The central claims are that racial oppression has profoundly influenced the development of legal doctrine and that the production of subjugated figures like the slave and the refugee has been fundamental to the development of legal categories such as contract and tort.Drawing on examples from the UK and US legal systems in particular, this book employs a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives to explore resistance to racial dominance in modernity.