LEADER 04398nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910465479303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06530-1 010 $a0-674-06956-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065307 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082507 035 $a(EBL)3301067 035 $a(OCoLC)794003559 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000658380 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11393048 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658380 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10681503 035 $a(PQKB)10953164 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301067 035 $a(DE-B1597)178198 035 $a(OCoLC)1013966118 035 $a(OCoLC)1037969599 035 $a(OCoLC)1041996100 035 $a(OCoLC)1046611007 035 $a(OCoLC)1047016701 035 $a(OCoLC)1049624994 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878025 035 $a(OCoLC)840446613 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301067 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568010 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082507 100 $a20111005d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRepresenting the race$b[electronic resource] $ethe creation of the civil rights lawyer /$fby Kenneth W. Mack 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-04687-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: The Problem of Race and Representation -- $t1. The Idea of the Representative Negro -- $t2. Racial Identity and the Marketplace for Lawyers -- $t3. The Role of the Courtroom in an Era of Segregation -- $t4. A Shifting Racial Identity in a Southern Courtroom -- $t5. Young Thurgood Marshall Joins the Brotherhood of the Bar -- $t6. A Woman in a Fraternity of Lawyers -- $t7. Things Fall Apart -- $t8. The Strange Journey of Loren Miller -- $t9. The Trials of Pauli Murray -- $t10. A Lawyer as the Face of Integration in Postwar America -- $tConclusion: Race and Representation in a New Century -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aRepresenting the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of African American lawyers who worked in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking justice for diverse clients, they confronted a tension between their racial identity as black men and women and their professional identity as lawyers. Both blacks and whites demanded that these attorneys stand apart from their racial community as members of the legal fraternity. Yet, at the same time, they were expected to be "authentic"-that is, in sympathy with the black masses. This conundrum, as Kenneth W. Mack shows, continues to reverberate through American politics today.Mack reorients what we thought we knew about famous figures such as Thurgood Marshall, who rose to prominence by convincing local blacks and prominent whites that he was-as nearly as possible-one of them. But he also introduces a little-known cast of characters to the American racial narrative. These include Loren Miller, the biracial Los Angeles lawyer who, after learning in college that he was black, became a Marxist critic of his fellow black attorneys and ultimately a leading civil rights advocate; and Pauli Murray, a black woman who seemed neither black nor white, neither man nor woman, who helped invent sex discrimination as a category of law. The stories of these lawyers pose the unsettling question: what, ultimately, does it mean to "represent" a minority group in the give-and-take of American law and politics? 606 $aAfrican American lawyers$vBiography 606 $aCause lawyers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican American lawyers 615 0$aCause lawyers 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 676 $a340.092/2 700 $aMack$b Kenneth Walter$f1964-$01055042 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465479303321 996 $aRepresenting the race$92488113 997 $aUNINA