Derrick Bell

Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform

Buch

This book combines the personal reflections of a civil rights lawyer who personally handled dozens of school desegregation cases with a stunning argument against the perfect precedent of Brown vs Board of Education. Bell argues that an alternative Brown opinion that retained the separate but equal standard, but required its full enforcement, would have been more effective in combating racial discrimination than the decision handed down. Alesson of Brown is that equaleducational opportunities for African -Americans were sacrificed to white interests. As a result of these sacrifices- or silent covenants- inequalities continue to haunt the natio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-518247-7
EAN: 9780195182477
Produktnummer: 22402444
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H22.4 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.7 cm 322 g
Gewicht: 322

Über den Autor

Derrick Bell is Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. He was for 15 years a member of the Harvard Law School faculty. As an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer, he handled and supervised hundreds of school desegregation cases during the 1960s. He is the author of several books including Race, Racism and American Law, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth, Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester,Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, and And We Are Not Saved. He lives in New York City.