Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
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African-Americans have had an ambivalent relationship with the Constitution for more than two hundred years. Throughout most of American history, racist interpretations of the Constitution have sanctioned a legal system supportive of slavery, marked blacks as inferiors, rendered them politically powerless, and denied them justice and access to society's resources. Yet both black and white opponents of slavery and racial subordination--from antebellum...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195055616
ISBN13:9780195055610
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 8.0" x 5.4"
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