LEADER 04057nam 22005773 450 001 9910860884603321 005 20230128060417.0 010 $a9781503635661$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9781503630659 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503635661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30352880 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30352880 035 $a(CKB)26053258400041 035 $a(DE-B1597)650627 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503635661 035 $a(OCoLC)1350966291 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926053258400041 100 $a20230128d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Transition $eInterpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aGrand Rapids :$cStanford University Press,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (343 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Kiel, Daniel The Transition Grand Rapids : Stanford University Press,c2023 9781503630659 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: Race, Schools, and the Justices of the Supreme Court -- $tPART I. Becoming Justices -- $tPART II. Integration -- $tPART III. Individuals and Government -- $tPART IV. Diversity -- $tConclusion: The Rule of Law -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aEvery Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century. In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate members of their racial group. On the Court, their judicial writings?often in concurrences or dissents?richly illustrate the ways in which these two individuals embodied these crucial American (and African American) debates?on the balance between state and federal authority, on the government's responsibility to protect its citizens against discrimination, and on the best strategies for pursuing justice. The gap between Justices Marshall and Thomas on these questions cannot be overstated, and it reveals an extraordinary range of thought that has yet to be fully appreciated. The 1991 transition from Justice Marshall to Justice Thomas has had consequences that are still unfolding at the Court and in society. Arguing that the importance of this transition has been obscured by the relegation of these Justices to the sidelines of Supreme Court history, Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspective as Black justices ? the lives they have lived as African Americans and the rooting of their judicial philosophies in the relationship of government to African Americans ? that makes this succession echo across generations. 606 $aLAW / Civil Rights$2bisacsh 610 $aAfrican American history. 610 $aAmerican race relations. 610 $aClarence Thomas. 610 $aConstitutional law. 610 $aFederalism. 610 $aSupreme Court. 610 $aThurgood Marshall. 610 $aU.S. civil rights movement. 610 $aaffirmative action. 610 $aschool desegregation. 615 7$aLAW / Civil Rights. 676 $a347.73/2634 700 $aKiel$b Daniel$01740345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910860884603321 996 $aThe Transition$94166003 997 $aUNINA