Race on trial : law and justice in American history / edited by Annette Gordon-Reed.
| Other author | Gordon-Reed, Annette. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| Description | xi, 234 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Viewpoints on American culture Viewpoints on American culture. ^A474738 |
| Contents | Introduction / Annette Gordon-Reed -- The impact of the Amistad case on race and law in America (1841) / Howard Jones -- The Dred Scott case (1857) / Xi Wang -- Celia's case (1857) / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Race, identity and the law: Plessy v. Ferguson(1896) / Thomas J. Davis -- Jack Johnson versus the American racial hierarchy (1913) / Denise C. Morgan --Twenty years on trial: Takuji Yamashita's struggle for citizenship (1922) / Gabriel J. Chin -- A white woman's word: the Scottsboro case (1931) / P.J. Ling -- Koematsu v. United States revisited: 1944 and 1983 (1944) / Roger daniels --Brown v. Board of Education (1954) / Mark Tushnet -- Interracial marriage on trial: loving v. Virginia (1967) / Peter Wallenstein -- Race, affirmative action, and higher education on trial: Regents v. Bakke (1978) / Howard Ball -- Black and white: the O.J. Simson case (1995) / Walter L. Hixson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-234). |
| LCCN | 2001054875 |
| ISBN | 0195122798 (cl. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0195122801 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |