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Racism and the Law: The Legacy and Lessons of Plessy - Couverture rigide

 
9780792346654: Racism and the Law: The Legacy and Lessons of Plessy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0792346653 ISBN 13 : 9780792346654
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to counter its devastating effects during the last half century. Ironically, in the current debate over affirmative action, Justice Harlan's eloquent dissent has been used to justify attacks on government affirmative action programs. In this book, five distinguished philosophers and constitutional theorists, working from very different theoretical positions, take a fresh critical look at the moral and political principles underlying this historic decision and Harlan's dissent. They also explore the nature and extent of law's complicity in perpetuating Plessy's racialist aims. Emerging from their varied but complementary analyses is a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the social injustice of racial segregation in its historic and contemporary forms and of resources of the law to reverse it.

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Éditeur
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0792346653
ISBN 13 
9780792346654
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
116
Éditeur
Postema Gerald
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
CMN Printpool Inh. Mathis Neumann
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