In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of ...
This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.
Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question—from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee’s expletives, from Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels— and ...
In 'From Jim Crow to Civil Rights', Michael J. Klarman examines the social and political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions involving race relations from Plessy, the Progressive Era and the inter-war period to World Wars I and II, ...
Contributors: Paul Burstein, University of WashingtonDavid B. Filvaroff, State University of New York, BuffaloLouis Ricardo Fraga, Stanford UniversityHugh Davis Graham, Vanderbilt UniversityJack Greenberg, Columbia UniversityGloria J. ...
And the twenty-first century has seen a steady erosion of commitments to enforcing hard-won rights. Justice Deferred is the first book that comprehensively charts the CourtŐs race jurisprudence.
In this powerful and disturbing book, Rogers Smith traces political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through the Progressive era and shows that throughout this time, most adults were legally denied access to ...
This book defines important terms in the language of inequality and explains how these conditions can be fatal"--
"Explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police"--
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v.