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Legacy and legitimacy : black Americans and the Supreme Court / Rosalee A. Clawson and Eric N. Waltenburg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clawson, Rosalee A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--Public opinion.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- Mass media and public opinion--United States.
- Mass media and public opinion.
- Public opinion.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Legitimacy and American democracy
- Blacks, civil rights, and the Supreme Court
- Establishing the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity
- Different presses, different frames : black and mainstream press coverage of a Supreme Court decision
- Media framing and the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity
- The Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity among African Americans : support for capital punishment and affirmative action
- The causal relationship between public opinion toward the court and its politics : the University of Michigan affirmative action cases.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592139026
- 1592139027
- 9781592139033
- 1592139035
- OCLC:
- 222664523
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