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Title Race on trial : law and justice in American history / edited by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Viewpoints on American culture
Viewpoints on American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234).
Contents Introduction / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Impact of the Amistad case on race and law in America (1841) / Howard Jones -- 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.
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Subject Discrimination in justice administration -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in justice administration.
United States.
History.
Trials -- United States.
Trials.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Gordon-Reed, Annette.
Other Form: Print version: Race on trial. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195122798 0195122801 (DLC) 2001054875 (OCoLC)48144534
ISBN 1423757696 (electronic book)
9781423757696 (electronic book)
9780195122800 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
0195122801 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
0195122801 (Paper)
0195122798 (Cloth)
9780195122794