Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America

by Mary Frances Berry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140232982
• ISBN13: 9780140232981
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"