Race, Law and Society

Informationen zum Autor Ian Haney López is Professor of Law at the University of California! Berkeley! where he teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. Zusammenfassung Race, Law and Society presents some of the best writing on race and racism from leading experts in the field. The anthology includes a new introduction, and the selected articles offer scholars and students a template for their own work in the field of race, society and the law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Beyond Doctrine: Race and Rights: Law! society! identity! and the making of the Jim Crow South: travel and segregation on Tennessee railroads! 1875-1905! Kennth W. Mack; Brown as a Cold War case! Mary L. Dudziak; African-American rights after Brown! Gerald N. Rosenberg; 'Won't you please help me get my son home': peonage! patronage! and protest in the World War II urban south! Risa L Goluboff; Victims in the shadow of the law: a critique of the model of legal protection! Kristin Bumiller; Advocacy against the stereotype: lessons from cognitive social psychology! Gary Blasi . Part II: Race! Racism! and Criminal Justice: The mark of a criminal record! Devah Pager; Too many black men: the sentencing judge's dilemma! Doris Marie Provine; Crime! race! and reproduction! Dorothy E. Roberts; From slavery to mass incarceration: rethinking the 'race question' in the US! Loïc Wacquant. Part III From Law to Race: Telling the difference: nineteenth-century legal narratives of racial taxonomy! Michael A Elliott; Miscegenation law! court cases! and ideologies of 'race' in twentieth- century America! Peggy Pascoe; The architecture of race in American immigration law; a re-examination of the immigration act of 1924! Mae M. Ngai; Protest! repression! and race: legal violence and the Chicano Movement! Ian F. Haney López; The citizen and the terrorist! Leti Volpp. Part IV Methods: Race in law and society: a critique! Osagie K. Obasogie; A tale of two genres: on the real and ideal links between law and society and critical race theory! Laura E. Gómez; Sapphire bound!! Regina Austin; Name index. ...

Product details

• Authors: Ian Haney Lopez, Ian Haney López
• Assisted by: Ian Haney López (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2006
• EAN: 9780754626619
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2661-9
• No. of pages: 540
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Series: The International Library of Essays in Law and Society; The International Library of Essays in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Physical anthropology, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General