UID:
almafu_9959235865602883
Format:
1 online resource (240p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-772030-7
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1-280-45279-X
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1-4237-4109-9
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0-19-535558-X
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1-60256-128-1
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
More than 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to the segregation of the races by law, current debates about multiculturalism and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty about the meaning of race in American culture.
Note:
"Originally presented at the conference "Brown at Forty," held at Amherst College in December 1994"--Acknowledgments.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- The Continuing Contest about Race in American Law and Culture: On Reading the Meaning of Brown -- I. BROWN AND ITS LEGAL CONTEXTS -- 1. Performing Interpretation: A Legacy of Civil Rights Lawyering in Brown -- 2. Brown in Context -- 3. From Brown to Casey: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Burdens of History -- II. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW -- 4. Brown and the Harm of Legal Segregation -- 5. The Triumph and Transformation of Antidiscrimination Law -- III. READING THE "REALITIES" OF RACE -- 6. Social Engineers or Corporate Tools? Brown v. Board of Education and the Conscience of the Black Corporate Bar -- 7. A Federal Life: Brown and the Nationalization of the Life Story -- 8. Cultural Imperialism, White Anxiety, and the Ideological Realignment of Brown -- 9. Can the Tactics of Cultural Integration Counter the Persistence of Political Apartheid? Or, The Multicultural Wars, Part Two -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-510621-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-510622-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195106213.001.0001
