Promises to Keep African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present

Name: Promises to Keep African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780195055610

ISBN-10: 0195055616

ISBN-13: 9780195055610

Edition: 1991

Authors: Donald G. Nieman

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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 abolitionists to twentieth-century civil rights leaders--have found principles in the Constitution that support their demands for freedom, citizenship, and equality. In Promises to Keep, Donald G. Nieman tells the story of this paradoxical…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English