White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism

by Peter Irons

Book Overview

A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present.

From the arrival of the first English settlers in America until now-a span of four centuries-a minority of white men have created, managed, and perpetuated their control of every major institution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190914947
• ISBN13: 9780190914943
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"