Annette (Hrsg.) Gordon-Reed

Race on Trial

ISBN: 978-0-19-802866-6
EAN: 9780198028666
Produktnummer: 13934201
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 13&#039;670 KB

Law and Justice in American History

Ebook (PDF Format)

This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials of the century of their time; and cases that made important law. Some of the cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Scottsboro, Korematsu v. US, Brown v. Board, Loving v. Virginia, Regents v. Bakke, and OJ Simpson. All illustrate how race often determined the outcome of trials, and how trials that confront issues of r… Mehr