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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 February 2014
    13 February 2014
    ISBN:
    9781139600170
    9781107039292
    9781107595835
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139600170
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.8kg, 266 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.39kg, 266 Pages
    • Subjects:
    US Law, Law, Human Rights
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    Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture and confronts important questions about race in contemporary America. How important is civil rights in America's story of possibility and change? How has it transformed the very meaning of citizenship and identity in American culture? Why does the subject of race continue to haunt the American imagination and play such a large role in political and legal debates? Do affirmative action and multiculturalism promise a way out of racial polarization, or do they sharpen and deepen it? Are there new and better ways to frame our commitment to equal justice? This book brings together the work of five distinguished scholars to critically assess the place of civil rights in the American story. It offers different ways of talking about civil rights and frames through which we can address issues of civil rights in the future.

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