African Americans And The Law
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Law Never Here
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Author : Frankie Y. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1999
Law Never Here written by Frankie Y. Bailey and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.
Shared racial and cultural experiences and the collective memory of those experiences play important roles in determining the responses of African Americans to issues of crime and violence. By examining American history through the prism of African American experience, this volume provides a framework for understanding contemporary issues regarding crime and justice, including the much-discussed gap between how blacks and whites perceive the fairness of the criminal justice system. Following a thesis offered by W.E.B. Du Bois with regard to African American responses to oppression, the authors argue that responses by African Americans to issues of crime and justice have taken three main forms--resistance, accommodation, and self-determination. These responses are related to efforts by African Americans to carve out social and psychological space for themselves and to find their place in America.
Shades Of Freedom
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Author : A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-11
Shades Of Freedom written by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-11 with Social Science categories.
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history of race and the American legal process. Published in 1978, this brilliant book has been hailed as the definitive account of racism, slavery, and the law in colonial America. Now, after twenty years, comes the long-awaited sequel. In Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. Perhaps the most powerful and insightful writing centers on a pair of famous Supreme Court cases, which Higginbotham uses to portray race relations at two vital moments in our history. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 declared that a slave who had escaped to free territory must be returned to his slave owner. Chief Justice Roger Taney, in his notorious opinion for the majority, stated that blacks were "so inferior that they had no right which the white man was bound to respect." For Higginbotham, Taney's decision reflects the extreme state that race relations had reached just before the Civil War. And after the War and Reconstruction, Higginbotham reveals, the Courts showed a pervasive reluctance (if not hostility) toward the goal of full and equal justice for African Americans, and this was particularly true of the Supreme Court. And in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which Higginbotham terms "one of the most catastrophic racial decisions ever rendered," the Court held that full equality--in schooling or housing, for instance--was unnecessary as long as there were "separate but equal" facilities. Higginbotham also documents the eloquent voices that opposed the openly racist workings of the judicial system, from Reconstruction Congressman John R. Lynch to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan to W. E. B. Du Bois, and he shows that, ironically, it was the conservative Supreme Court of the 1930s that began the attack on school segregation, and overturned the convictions of African Americans in the famous Scottsboro case. But today racial bias still dominates the nation, Higginbotham concludes, as he shows how in six recent court cases the public perception of black inferiority continues to persist. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history--and a mirror to the American soul.
Black And Blue
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Author : James L. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
Black And Blue written by James L. Gibson and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Law categories.
A crisis of legitimacy exists between African Americans and American legal institutions. This book shows how and why African Americans differ in a desire to ascribe legitimacy to legal institutions, as well as a willingness to accept the policy decisions those institutions put forward.
In The Matter Of Color
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Author : A. Leon Higginbotham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1980-08-07
In The Matter Of Color written by A. Leon Higginbotham and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-08-07 with History categories.
Judge Higginbotham chronicles in unrelenting detail the role of the law in the enslavement and subjugation of black Americans during the colonial period. It is a moving book that should be read by all Americans who believe in justice and dignity for all.
Emancipation
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Author : John Clay Smith (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1999
Emancipation written by John Clay Smith (Jr.) and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Law categories.
"Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the challenges that lie ahead."—From the Foreword, by Justice Thurgood Marshall
The Black Laws
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Author : Stephen Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Black Laws written by Stephen Middleton and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Beginning in 1803, and continuing for several decades, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. Stephen Middleton tells the story of this racial oppression in Ohio and provides chilling episodes of how blacks asserted their freedom from the enactment of the Black Laws until the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
See Justice Done
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Author : Christopher Michael Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
See Justice Done written by Christopher Michael Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with African Americans categories.
"In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms-including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions-is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown begins by examining petitions submitted by free and enslaved Blacks to colonial and early republic legislatures. A virtually unexplored archive, these petitions aimed to demonstrate the autonomy and competence of their authors. Brown also examines early slave autobiographies such as Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and Mary Prince's History, which were both written in the form of legal petitions. These works invoke scenes of Black competence and of Black madness, repeatedly and simultaneously. Early Black writings reflect how a Black Atlantic world, organized by slavery, refused to acknowledge Black competence. By including scenes of Black madness, these narratives critique the violence of the law and predict the failure of future legal counterparts, such as Plessy v. Ferguson, to remedy injustice. Later chapters examine the works of more contemporary writers, such as Sutton E. Griggs, George Schuyler, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones, and explore varied topics from American exceptionalism to the legal trope of "colorblindness." In chronicling these interactions with jurisprudential logics, See Justice Done reveals the tensions between US law and Black experiences of both its possibilities and its perils"--
More Justice More Peace
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Author : Nedra D. Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
More Justice More Peace written by Nedra D. Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Justice, Administration of categories.
African Americans In Law And Politics
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Author : Mary Main
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-09-02
African Americans In Law And Politics written by Mary Main and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
On November 4, 2008, Americans went to the polls and elected the first black president in the history of the United States. Barack Obama was clearly a gifted politician with impressive achievements and a compelling life story. Still, his historic election wouldn't have been possible if earlier generations of African Americans hadn't paved the way. This book tells the stories of pioneering African-American lawyers and politicians. It details their efforts to guarantee black people the same rights enjoyed by other Americans, including the right to vote. In courtrooms, statehouses, and the halls of Congress, the people profiled in this book have helped make the United States what the framers of the Constitution hoped: "a more perfect Union."
Race Law And Public Policy
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Author : Robert Johnson (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Release Date : 1998
Race Law And Public Policy written by Robert Johnson (Jr.) and has been published by Black Classic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Law categories.