Shades of freedom : racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.

African Americans.

Black people--United States--History.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: From Total Racial Oppression to Shades of Freedom; 1 My Forty-Year Journey in Formulating the Precepts; 2 The Precept of Inferiority; 3 The Ancestry of Inferiority (1619-1662); 4 The Ideology of Inferiority (1662-1830); 5 The Politics of Inferiority (1830-1865); 6 The Constitutional Language of Slavery: From Non-disclosure to Abolition, 1787-1866; 7 The Dream of Freedom and Its Demise; 8 The Supreme Court's Sanction of Racial Hatred: The 1883 Civil Rights Cases; 9 The Supreme Court's Legitimization of Racism: Plessy v. Ferguson: A Case Wrongly Decided

10 Too Inferior To Be Their Neighbor11 Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System; 12 Limiting the Seeds of Race Hatred: The Charles Evans Hughes Supreme Court Era (1930-1941); 13 Voting Rights, Pluralism, and Political Power; Epilogue; Appendix: The Ten Precepts of American Slavery Jurisprudence; Articles published by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028409-9

1-280-53006-5

0-19-802867-9

1-4294-1583-5

OCLC:

476012127