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Mary Frances Berry

The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice

Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present

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Sweeping and important.... Provides a fascinating vision of justice and history. --The Washington Post Book WorldFrom the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission comes a landmark study of the ways in which prejudice has shaped American justice from the Civil War era to the present. With an ear tuned to the social subtext of every judicial decision, Mary Frances Berry examines a century's worth of appellate cases, ranging from a nineteenth-century Alabama case in which a white woman was denied her divorce petition because an affair between a white man (her husband) and a black woman (his lover) was of no consequence, to such recent, high-pro… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-375-70746-9
  • EAN: 9780375707469
  • Produktnummer: 9405309
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.

Über den Autor


Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania.

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