Front cover image for Shades of Freedom : Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process Race and the American Legal Process, Volume II

Shades of Freedom : Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process Race and the American Legal Process, Volume II

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
eBook, English, 1998
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998
History
1 online resource (353 pages)
9780198028673, 9780190284091, 9781280530067, 9781429415835, 0198028679, 0190284099, 1280530065, 1429415835
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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
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