Shades of Freedom

Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process

AvA. Leon Higginbotham

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

In 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. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and a celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history and a mirror to the American soul.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-07-09
Mått:143 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195122886

Utforska kategorier

Rättsvetenskap inom Juridik
Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. is Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was formerly Chief Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has taught at Yale and at the Harvard, New York University, and University of Pennsylvania Law Schools, and is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His landmark volume In the Matter of Color won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award and the National Bar Association's Literary Award.

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Reviews of the cloth edition: "Judge Higginbotham's book is customarily well researched, extensively documented, persuasively written, and offers compelling insights on the painfully slow process of racial progress in America. While W.E.B. DuBois reminded us that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, Judge Higginbotham has documented DuBois's prophecy in Shades of Freedom, the seminal work on race in the legal system for the twenty-first century."--Charles J. Ogletree, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School