The dark past: the US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015 /
"The Dark Past provides a historical overview and interpretive guide to all of the US Supreme Court's major cases that affected the freedom and rights of Black Americans since 1800. It offers coherence to a chronicle of cases and connects the events of the past to the current era of racial...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The Dark Past provides a historical overview and interpretive guide to all of the US Supreme Court's major cases that affected the freedom and rights of Black Americans since 1800. It offers coherence to a chronicle of cases and connects the events of the past to the current era of racial inequality. The US Supreme Court sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. Moreover, The Dark Past incorporates structural racism as a principal definition of inequality in the contemporary Black legal experience. It elaborates on several significant cases affecting the rights of Black people, such as the Dred Scott decision and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 532 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197654460 0197654460 9780197654453 0197654452 9780197654446 0197654444 |