Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present

by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Overview

This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality. From the colonial period to the present, this book examines education, property ownership, voting rights, criminal justice, and the military as well as internationalism and civil liberties by analyzing the key court cases that established America’s racial system and demonstrating the impact of these court cases on American society. This edition also includes more on Asians, Native Americans, and Latinos. Race, Law, and American Society is highly accessible and thorough in its depiction of the role race has played, with the sanction of the U.S. Supreme Court, in shaping virtually every major American social institution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415522137
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2013
Series:	Criminology and Justice Studies
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer, speaker, and Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY). As a Civil Rights attorney, she litigated cases for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and Southern Poverty Law Center. She taught in the Africana program at Vassar College. Gloria Browne-Marshall is Founder/Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc., a journalist who covers the U.S. Supreme Court, a playwright, and author of several books on justice under law.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Race and the Law in America 2. Race and the Struggle for Education in American Schools 3. Race, Crime, and Injustice 4. Civil Liberties and Racial Justice 5. Voting Rights and Restrictions 6. Property Rights and Ownership 7. Race and the Military 8. Race and Internationalism

Editorial Reviews

"I hope educators at every level are attracted to this book as a teaching tool."

—Derrick Bell, from the foreword

"Gloria Browne-Marshall's Race, Law, and American Society builds on the great vision of the late great Barbara Jordan: How will America become as great as its promise? Black courageous citizens have been at the forefront of this movement. This book is a gem."

—Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton University

"Brilliantly researched, Gloria Browne-Marshall's history of Race, Law, and American Society is bold and challenging; dramatic, comprehensive, and galvanizing. Everyone concerned about justice and dignity, civility, the law and human survival will want to read, and assign this book."

—Blanche Wiesen Cook, University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College & The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Eleanor Roosevelt

"In this sophisticated survey of Supreme Court decisions, Gloria Browne-Marshall shows African Americans working to make ‘liberty and justice’ more than rhetoric—by pressing judges to expand freedom’s scope from that for white men to the majority. All Americans owe Black Americans much for making the United States ever more democratic and justice-oriented."

—Joe R. Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A & M University

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