My Account Wish List
Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/B4228.aspx
All Greenwood Products
The Constitution and Race
(Click to Enlarge)
Donald E. Lively
Book Code: B4228
ISBN: 0-275-94228-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94228-1
208 pages
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 2/28/1992
List Price: $22.95 (UK Sterling Price: £12.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1992
  • Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 1992
Reviews:
  • This sensitive analysis of the historical and contemporary problems of racial justice describes the development of legal ideas within the real world of social constraints.
    —Legal Studies Forum
Description: This unique volume examines the manner in which constitutional jurisprudence concerning race has prioritized, developed, and remained unsatisfactory in its response to racial equality and civil rights issues from the time of the Constitutional Convention to the present day. Discussed and examined are the compelling and ever timely issues of slavery, civil rights, voting rights, segregation, and fairness in education, housing, and law enforcement. Donald E. Lively gives us a rich analysis of the Supreme Court's response to society's ambiguities, concerns, and conscience in the matters of race. The winning of rights has been a struggle--and is far from over as the resistance to affirmative action in the present environment demonstrates. The work is a well written review and analysis of America's constitutional and judicial history in matters of race. The nation's enduring ambivalence and the price it pays in less than consistent constitutional interpretations on racial questions is both enlightening and disturbing. The questions, of course, are at the heart of a democracy and involve personhood, citizenship, liberty, and equality. The Constitution and Race will be valuable to political scientists, historians, sociologists, lawyers, and students.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Constitutional Law and Slavery
  • Toward a More Perfect Union
  • Constitutional Amendment and Doctrinal Development
  • Separate But Equal
  • Desegregation and the Anti-Discrimination Principle
  • Color-Blindness Revisited
  • Original Imperatives and Doctrinal Possibility
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 91-30280
LCC Class: KF4755
Dewey Class: 342.73
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2008 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571