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Author Clawson, Rosalee A.

Title Legacy and legitimacy : black Americans and the Supreme Court / Rosalee A. Clawson and Eric N. Waltenburg.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  KF8748 .C425 2009    Available  ---
Description xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Contents Legitimacy and American democracy -- Blacks, civil rights, and the Supreme Court -- Establishing the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity -- Different presses, different frames : black and mainstream press coverage of a Supreme Court decision -- Media framing and the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity -- The Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity among African Americans : support for capital punishment and affirmative action -- The causal relationship between public opinion toward the court and its politics : the University of Michigan affirmative action cases.
Blacks, civil rights, and the Supreme Court -- Establishing the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity -- Different presses, different frames : the black versus mainstream presses' coverage of a Supreme Court decision -- The effect of media framing on the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity -- The Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity among African Americans : support for capital punishment and affirmative action -- The causal relationship between public opinion toward the court and its politics : the University of Michigan affirmative action cases.
Subject United States. Supreme Court -- Public opinion.
United States. Supreme Court.
Public opinion.
African Americans.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Mass media and public opinion -- United States.
Mass media and public opinion.
United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Added Author Waltenburg, Eric N., 1965-
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