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Autore |
Higginbotham A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), <1928-> |
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Titolo |
Shades of freedom : racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process / / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c1996 |
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0-19-028409-9 |
1-280-53006-5 |
0-19-802867-9 |
1-4294-1583-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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346.73013 |
347.30613 |
342.730873 |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History |
Blacks - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 'Shades of Freedom', A. Leon Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in |
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