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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826554003321

Autore

Sarat Austin

Titolo

Race, law, and culture : reflections on Brown v. Board of Education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772030-7

1-280-45279-X

1-4237-4109-9

0-19-535558-X

1-60256-128-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

344.73/0798

Soggetti

Law - United States - History

Sociological jurisprudence

Law and culture

Advice and Rights

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- The Continuing Contest about Race in American Law and Culture: On Reading the Meaning of Brown -- I. BROWN AND ITS LEGAL CONTEXTS -- 1. Performing Interpretation: A Legacy of Civil Rights Lawyering in Brown -- 2. Brown in Context -- 3. From Brown to Casey: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Burdens of History -- II. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW -- 4. Brown and the Harm of Legal Segregation -- 5. The Triumph and Transformation of Antidiscrimination Law -- III. READING THE "REALITIES" OF RACE -- 6. Social Engineers or Corporate Tools? Brown v. Board of Education and the Conscience of the Black Corporate Bar -- 7. A Federal Life: Brown and the Nationalization of the Life Story -- 8. Cultural Imperialism, White Anxiety, and the Ideological Realignment of Brown -- 9. Can the Tactics of Cultural Integration Counter the Persistence of Political Apartheid? Or, The Multicultural Wars, Part Two -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L --



M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

More than 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to the segregation of the races by law, current debates about multiculturalism and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty about the meaning of race in American culture.