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Shades of Freedom Vol. II : Politique raciale et présomptions des Américains...
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9780195122886
- Book Title
- Shades of Freedom Vol. II : Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
- Item Length
- 5.6in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Law, Social Science
- Topic
- Discrimination, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 16.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195122887
ISBN-13
9780195122886
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239689
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shades of Freedom Vol. II : Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Discrimination, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Law, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Kf4757
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"By showing us how profound our struggle has been, and how far we have come, Higginbotham also has shown by implication how difficult the struggles ahead are bound to be."--Emerge "A carefully researched and impressively documented book....Insightful."--The New York Times Book Review "An important exploration of some of the most critical and difficult terrain in American history."--The Washington Times, "One of the nation's leading constitutional scholars demonstrates, with a powerful command of history, the corrosive effects that centuries of racism have had on American justice. Judge Higginbotham's book is a milestone in the continuing effort to understand the manner in which racism hascompromised the capacity of law to achieve equal justice for every citizen."--James O. Freedman, President, Dartmouth College, "Shades of Freedom magnificently reflects on the systematic denial and betrayal of our past and present rights to full liberty and justice, while providing a sobering and disturbing prognosis of our future progress in achieving our full Constitutional guarantees. It superimposes a historicalmosaic of denial and unkept promises. The Judge brilliantly chronicles the insidious patterns of racism that have always short-circuited our quest for unconditional freedom, as embraced by America's most enduring concept 'We the People.' In Shades of Freedom, as in In the Matter of Color, JudgeHigginbotham passionately sounds the trumpet for a Rainbow of Freedom for 'We the People.'"--Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, President/Founder, The Bethune-Du Bois Fund, "Every course in American history must now include as required reading Judge Higginbotham's superb treatment of the legal process from 1619 to the modern era. In Shades of Freedom, as the author concentrates on "The Precept of Inferiority," the first of ten precepts which will portray thehistorical treatment of blacks in America, we are exposed to a kaleidoscope of official conduct--legislative, executive, but especially judicial--that must not be glossed over as a series of past events, but preserved and understood as true recordation of our history."--Ruggero J. Aldisert, SeniorCircuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, "Shades of Freedom is a worthy successor to In the Matter of Color. With eloquence and authority, Judge Higginbotham chronicles and analyzes the long, sordid history of the use of law in establishing and maintaining a system in which 'Equal Justice Under Law' is a mockery of the actualpractice. Anyone interested in race in America should read this important book."--John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus, Duke University, "In 1978, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., published In the Matter of Color, a meticulous examination of how white Americans used law in aid of slavery in the Colonial period. It was a pathbreaking scholarly achievement. 18 years later, judge-turned-professor Higginbotham has produced animpressive sequel to his earlier work. It was worth the wait. Shades of Freedom starts the process (at least one further volume is in early prospect) of bringing the tangled tale of race and law--and of the overarching cultural precepts which govern their interaction--up to date."--Lewis H. Pollak,U.S. District Judge, "Shades of Freedom is Leon Higginbotham's masterpiece. It exhibits atowering intellect, a peerless capacity for potent articulation, an unbendingintegrity and rich reservoirs of deep compassion all coalescing in a dance ofincredible beauty and energy."--Justice I Mahomed, Chief Justice of Namibia,Chairperson of the South African Law Commission, Deputy President of theConstitutional Court of South Africa, "Leon Higginbotham's Shades of Freedom is a testament to the great tradition of liberal jurisprudence that characterized the crucial legal aspect of the civil rights movement. Alone among the legal minds that comprised that movement, Judge Higginbotham has chronicled the long history of theidea of race in legal discourse, establishing himself as the major scholar of this field, as well as the logical heir of Mr. Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, "In his powerful treatise, Judge Higginbotham has exposed both the pathology and the potential of the law in either eliminating or perpetuating racial injustice. He has written with the eloquence of a Martin Luther King, the scholarship of a W.E.B. Du Bois, and the superb legal craftsmanshipand wisdom of Chief Justice Warren and Thurgood Marshall. For all individuals who believe that history is relevant, Shades of Freedom must be read and reflected on. A must-read book for every generation of Americans."--Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP, "Judge Higginbotham's book is customarily well researched, extensively documented, persuasively written, and offers compelling insights on the painfully slow process of racial progress in America. While W.E.B. Du Bois reminded us that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of thecolor line, Judge Higginbotham has documented Du Bois's prophecy in Shades of Freedom, the seminal work on race in the legal system for the twenty-first century."--Charles J. Ogletree, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, "Shades of Freedom is Leon Higginbotham's masterpiece. It exhibits a towering intellect, a peerless capacity for potent articulation, an unbending integrity and rich reservoirs of deep compassion all coalescing in a dance of incredible beauty and energy."--Justice I Mahomed, Chief Justice ofNamibia, Chairperson of the South African Law Commission, Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, "Judge Higginbotham is once again the smithy, wielding, as a mighty hammer, his powerful intellect, scholarship, historical, and logic, in the forge of justice, seeking to reshape on the anvil of the Constitution, minds badly twisted by racism. In this classic work, Shades of Freedom,Higginbotham takes his readers through historical and social time zones with their sunlight and shadows, showing forward movement and retreat. Given the confused state of race relations today this remarkable book could not be more timely."--Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, United States Court ofAppeals for the Sixth Circuit, "In 1978, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., published In the Matter ofColor, a meticulous examination of how white Americans used law in aid ofslavery in the Colonial period. It was a pathbreaking scholarly achievement. 18years later, judge-turned-professor Higginbotham has produced an impressivesequel to his earlier work. It was worth the wait. Shades of Freedom starts theprocess (at least one further volume is in early prospect) of bringing thetangled tale of race and law--and of the overarching cultural precepts whichgovern their interaction--up to date."--Lewis H. Pollak, U.S. DistrictJudge
Copyright Date
1998
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342.7/3/0873
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21
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