The dark past the US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015 / William M. Wiecek.
| Author/creator | Wiecek, William M. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xvii, 532 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Supreme Court and Slavery, 1800-1860 -- Reconstruction and the Supreme Court, 1862-1880 -- Redemption, 1880-1900 -- The Nadir and the Blue Hour, 1900-1920 -- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties between the Wars, 1920-1940 -- War and Cold War, 1941-1953 -- The Second Reconstruction, 1954-1971 -- Right Turn, 1960-1980 -- The Resegregation of America's Schools -- The Death of Affirmative Action -- Redemption Redux, 1972-2015. |
| Abstract | "The Dark Past provides a historical overview and interpretive guide to all of the US Supreme Court's major cases that affected the freedom and rights of Black Americans since 1800. It offers coherence to a chronicle of cases and connects the events of the past to the current era of racial inequality. The US Supreme Court sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. Moreover, The Dark Past incorporates structural racism as a principal definition of inequality in the contemporary Black legal experience. It elaborates on several significant cases affecting the rights of Black people, such as the Dred Scott decision and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024026009 |
| ISBN | 9780197654439 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |