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Race law : cases, commentary, and questions / F. Michael Higginbotham, Dean Joseph Curtis Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law.
Lippincott Library - Reserve Desk KF4755 .H54 2020
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higginbotham, F. Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--Cases.
- Minorities.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.
- Race discrimination.
- Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- lxxiv, 957 pages ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Maintaining the easily readable style and tightly organized structure of the earlier editions, this edition of Race law provides an in-depth examination of the issue of race and values in the American legal process, from the formation of the United States Constitution in 1787 to the present. This book covers a unique blend of original source materials and scholarly analysis, including historical background information, legislation, judicial decisions, congressional hearings, commentary, biographical information and questions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The racial prejudices that judges share
- Race classification
- Slavery, free blacks, and the constitution
- The northern approach to free blacks
- The southern approach to slavery and free blacks
- Slavery, free blacks, and the United States Supreme Court
- The beginning of the end of slavery
- The Supreme Court's betrayal of reconstruction
- Race and citizenship
- Race, American indians, and sovereignty
- The separate but equal doctrine
- Expanding the separate but equal doctrine
- Racial segregation and housing
- Racial segregation and interstate commerce
- Racial segregation and state action
- Interpreting the separate but equal doctrine
- Applying the separate but equal doctrine
- The end of state-mandated segregation
- Applying the Brown rationale
- Race conscious remedies
- Maintaining racial inequity
- Race, values, and Justice Thomas
- Race, values, and Justice Alito
- Race, values, and Justice Sotomayor
- Race and the administration of justice
- Race and immigration
- Race and politics
- Conclusion
- Documents
- History timeline.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Edition:
- Revision of: 9781611634662 Higginbotham, F. Michael. Fourth edition. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015]
- ISBN:
- 9781531018634
- 1531018637
- OCLC:
- 1226979018
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