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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827413903321

Autore

Higginbotham A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), <1928->

Titolo

Shades of freedom : racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process / / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c1996

ISBN

0-19-028409-9

1-280-53006-5

0-19-802867-9

1-4294-1583-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Classificazione

CB/USA 39 g

Disciplina

346.73013

347.30613

342.730873

Soggetti

African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History

Blacks - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: From Total Racial Oppression to Shades of Freedom; 1 My Forty-Year Journey in Formulating the Precepts; 2 The Precept of Inferiority; 3 The Ancestry of Inferiority (1619-1662); 4 The Ideology of Inferiority (1662-1830); 5 The Politics of Inferiority (1830-1865); 6 The Constitutional Language of Slavery: From Non-disclosure to Abolition, 1787-1866; 7 The Dream of Freedom and Its Demise; 8 The Supreme Court's Sanction of Racial Hatred: The 1883 Civil Rights Cases; 9 The Supreme Court's Legitimization of Racism: Plessy v. Ferguson: A Case Wrongly Decided

10 Too Inferior To Be Their Neighbor11 Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System; 12 Limiting the Seeds of Race Hatred: The Charles Evans Hughes Supreme Court Era (1930-1941); 13 Voting Rights, Pluralism, and Political Power; Epilogue; Appendix: The Ten Precepts of American Slavery Jurisprudence; Articles published by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 'Shades of Freedom', A. Leon Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in



America from colonial times to the present. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law.