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Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process Paperback - 1998

by Higginbotham, A. Leon

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A magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America, from colonial times to the present, this book demonstrates how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. 43 photos.

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FOR MORE than forty years, I have had a keen interest in the evolution of American colonial and antebellum slavery and the related race relations law.

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  • Title Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
  • Author Higginbotham, A. Leon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 58822nd
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0195122887I5N00
  • ISBN 9780195122886 / 0195122887
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.64 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.33 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1680
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96008718
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.306

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  • New York Times, 09/06/1998, Page 24

About the author

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. is Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Of Counsel to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison. He was formerly Chief Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His landmark volume, In the Matter of Color, won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award and the National Bar Association's Literary Award.

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