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Synopsis
Updated for the 1990s, this indictment of use of the Constitution to maintain a status quo discusses injustices ranging from the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Rodney King beating. 17,500 first printing. $17,500 ad/promo.
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About the Author
Mary Frances Berry is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Thought and a professor of history and law at the University of Pennsylvania.
From Publishers Weekly
Arguing that federal law still perpetuates racial subordination through toleration of police abuse and racial violence, Berry here updates a study she originally published in 1971. Aimed mainly at students, the book presents an account of the policies and theories of repression spanning from the introduction of slavery in 1619 to the suppression of the abolitionist movement, violence under Reconstruction and 20th-century lynchings. Berry, who teaches law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, shows that concern about the country's world image led to a more vigorous federal role in the 1960s. Analyzing events of recent years, she observes that even under the more progressive Carter administration, the federal government was reluctant to prosecute police abuse under federal statutes, and she cites numerous instances of hate crimes and police brutality under subsequent Republican administrations--the 1985 arson of a black family's home in a white area of Wren, Miss., for example, and racial harassment on college campuses. She concludes that until government treats racial violence against blacks as seriously as it does attacks on whites, black rebellions will continue.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0130777358
- ISBN 13 9780130777355
- BindingPaperback
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