LEADER 02996nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910827413903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-028409-9 010 $a1-280-53006-5 010 $a0-19-802867-9 010 $a1-4294-1583-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000468109 035 $a(EBL)272689 035 $a(OCoLC)476012127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000244874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12040399 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174785 035 $a(PQKB)11579581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272689 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000468109 100 $a19860101d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShades of freedom $eracial politics and presumptions of the American legal process /$fA. Leon Higginbotham, Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-512288-7 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a10 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 330 $aIn '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. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory 606 $aBlacks$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory. 615 0$aBlacks$xHistory. 676 $a346.73013 676 $a347.30613 676 $a342.730873 686 $aCB/USA 39 g$2cjurrom 700 $aHigginbotham$b A. Leon$g(Aloyisus Leon),$f1928-$01755023 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827413903321 996 $aShades of freedom$94191609 997 $aUNINA