Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948

by David L. Delaney

Book Overview

Black and white Americans have occupied separate spaces since the days of "the big house" and "the quarters." But the segregation and racialization of American society was not a natural phenomenon that "just happened." The decisions, enacted into laws, that kept the races apart and restricted blacks to less desirable places sprang from legal reasoning which argued that segregated spaces were right, reasonable, and preferable to other arrangements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292715978
• ISBN13: 9780292715974
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"