Black resistance, white law : a history of constitutional racism in America /

Black resistance, white law : a history of constitutional racism in America /

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Unavailable for a decade, now completely updated to the 1990s, this landmark book is a powerful indictment of federal use of the Constitution to maintain a racist status quo. Constitutional scholar Mary Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved en...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, Mary Frances
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A. Lane, Penguin Press, 1994.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans.
Recht.
Geschichte.
Schwarze.
USA.
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > History
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Foundations of Repression
  • 2. The Law of Black Suppression
  • 3. Defiant Slaves and Defiant States
  • 4. The Seminole War as a Black Freedom Movement: Phase One
  • 5. The Seminole War as a Black Freedom Movement: Phase Two
  • 6. Abolition and the Abrogation of Civil Liberties
  • 7. Controlling Blacks During the Civil War
  • 8. The Bottom Remains on the Bottom
  • 9. Changing Modes of Oppression: 1877-1900
  • 10. Riots, Lynchings, and Federal Quiescence
  • 11. Moving Off Dead Center
  • 12. The Illusion of a New Era
  • 13. Toward Federal Protection
  • 14. The States Act Despite Themselves
  • 15. Riots, Rebellion, and Repression
  • 16. Protests and Renewed Violence
  • 17. More Rebellion and Repression
  • 18. Still the "Disquieting" Presence
  • Appendix: Excerpts from the United States Code.