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A senior undergraduate textbook exploring the issues and themes within race and law today, and how these can be explained by the judicial past. Historical cases and primary sources are contextualized to ensure students comprehend how decisions from the past deeply impact the laws they have inherited, as well as shaping contemporary debates.
List of contents
Preface; Introduction: the legal construction and development of race; 1. Race, the constitution, and slavery; 2. Race. citizenship, and sovereignty; 3. Race and segregation; 4. Race and state obligation; 5. Race, culture, and identity; 6. Race and constructing democracy'; 7. Race and the limits of the law; Conclusion: what do we owe democracy?; References; Index.
About the author
Michelle D. Deardorff is the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Government at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The co-author of a two-volume constitutional law text and a popular American government text, her career includes decades at a historic Black university, a private college, and a regional public institution. She has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, on the governing council of the American Political Science Association, and as co-chair of the APSA Presidential Taskforce on Rethinking Political Science Education. From 1997 to 2017 she was part of the coalition which established the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, to engage and educate all students and teachers seeking to understand democracy and civil rights in the United States.
Summary
A senior undergraduate textbook exploring the issues and themes within race and law today, and how these can be explained by the judicial past. Historical cases and primary sources are contextualized to ensure students comprehend how decisions from the past deeply impact the laws they have inherited, as well as shaping contemporary debates.
Foreword
A senior undergraduate textbook exploring the issues and themes within race and law today, and how these can be explained by the past.
