The dark past

• Verfasst von: Wiecek, William M. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The dark past
• Titelzusatz: the US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015
• Verf.angabe: William M. Wiecek
• Verlagsort: New York, NY, United States of America
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 532 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765446-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/9780197654460.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Wiecek, William M., 1938 - : The dark past. - New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2024. - xvii, 532 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Law
• Sach-SW: Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
• K10plus-PPN: 1904981410
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

'The Dark Past' offers a historical overview & interpretive guide to all the major cases decided by US Supreme Court that have affected the freedom & rights of Black Americans since 1800. It lends coherence to what could otherwise be a disjointed chronicle of cases & connects the events of the past to the current era of racial inequality - most recently exhibited in the Shelby County v. Holder (2015) decision, which hobbled the Voting Rights Act. Throughout the 600 volumes of the United States Reports the justices have almost never alluded to the reality of racism or used words that denote it. Only once has the phrase 'white supremacy' appeared in an opinion of the Court, & only 30 or so times has a member of the Court referred to 'racism'. This book, on the other hand, incorporates structural racism as a principal definition of inequality in the contemporary Black legal experience.

Abstract

"The Dark Past provides a historical overview and interpretive guide to all of the US Supreme Court's major cases that affected the freedom and rights of Black Americans since 1800. It offers coherence to a chronicle of cases and connects the events of the past to the current era of racial inequality. The US Supreme Court sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. Moreover, The Dark Past incorporates structural racism as a principal definition of inequality in the contemporary Black legal experience. It elaborates on several significant cases affecting the rights of Black people, such as the Dred Scott decision and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision"--