How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while endorsing surveillance of black rebels and using constitutional military force against them. In this groundbreaking study, constitutional scholar Mary Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved enormously, both socially and economically, are still at risk of police abuse and largely unprotected from bias crimes.
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Once youve read this book, your understanding of race relations and your vision of America will be changed forever.Don Edwards, former U.S. Representative
Black Resistance/White Law offers an opportunity to revisit a historical experience that the successes of the civil rights movement of the past fifty years have allowed many of us to forget.Chicago Tribune
| Preface |
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1 Foundations of Repression |
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2 The Law of Black Suppression |
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3 Defiant Slaves and Defiant States |
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4 The Seminole War as a Black Freedom Movement: Phase One |
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5 The Seminole War as a Black Freedom Movement: Phase Two |
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6 Abolition and the Abrogation of Civil Liberties |
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7 Controlling Blacks During the Civil War |
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8 The Bottom Remains on the Bottom |
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9 Changing Modes of Oppression: 1877-1900 |
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10 Riots, Lynchings, and Federal Quiescence |
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11 Moving Off Dead Center |
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12 The Illusion of a New Era |
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13 Toward Federal Protection |
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14 The States Act Despite Themselves |
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15 Riots, Rebellion, and Repression |
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16 Protests and Renewed Violence |
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17 More Rebellion and Repression |
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18 Still the "Disquieting" Presence |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliographical Note |
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| Appendix: Excerpts from the United States Code |
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Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of nine books. The recipient of thirty-three honorary degrees, she has been chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is a regular contributor to Politico, and has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, Anderson Cooper 360, The Daily Show, Tavis Smiley, and PBS's NewsHour.
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