02996nam 2200589Ia 450 991082741390332120200520144314.00-19-028409-91-280-53006-50-19-802867-91-4294-1583-5(CKB)1000000000468109(EBL)272689(OCoLC)476012127(SSID)ssj0000244874(PQKBManifestationID)12040399(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244874(PQKBWorkID)10174785(PQKB)11579581(MiAaPQ)EBC272689(EXLCZ)99100000000046810919860101d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShades of freedom racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process /A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr1st ed.New York ;Oxford Oxford University Pressc19961 online resource (353 p.)Includes index.0-19-512288-7 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 Decided10 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; IndexIn '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.African AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistoryBlacksUnited StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.History.BlacksHistory.346.73013347.30613342.730873CB/USA 39 gcjurromHigginbotham A. Leon(Aloyisus Leon),1928-1755023MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827413903321Shades of freedom4191609UNINA