UID:
edocfu_9959230066402883
Format:
1 online resource (247 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-771566-4
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0-19-988075-1
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1-280-56000-2
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1-4237-5769-6
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0-19-802866-0
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1-60256-303-9
Series Statement:
Viewpoints on American culture
Content:
The work of 12 original essays will bring together two themes of American culture - law and race. Some of the cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Regents v. Bakke and O.J. Simpson.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2002.
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Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Impact of the Amistad Case on Race and Law in America (1841); 2 The Dred Scott Case (1857); 3 Celia's Case (1857); 4 Race, Identity, and the Law: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); 5 Jack Johnson versus the American Racial Hierarchy (1913); 6 Twenty Years on Trial: Takuji Yamashita's Struggle for Citizenship (1922); 7 A White Woman's Word: The Scottsboro Case (1931); 8 Korematsu v. United States Revisited: 1944 and 1983 (1944); 9 Brown v. Board of Education (1954); 10 Interracial Marriage on Trial: Loving v. Virginia (1967)
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11 Race, Affirmative Action, and Higher Education on Trial: Regents v. Bakke (1978)12 Black and White: The O. J. Simpson Case (1995); Suggested Readings
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512280-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512279-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195122794.001.0001
