Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical TruthDuke University Press, 1999 - 272 páginas Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of slavery? If the Thirteenth Amendment abolished it in 1865, why did most of the disputed points during the Reconstruction debates of 1866-75 concern issues of slavery? In this book Pamela Brandwein examines the post-Civil War struggle between competing political and legal interpretations of slavery and Reconstruction to reveal how accepted historical truth was established. Delving into the circumstances, assumptions, and rhetoric that shaped the "official" story of Reconstruction, Brandwein describes precisely how a dominant interpretation of events ultimately emerged and what its implications have been for twentieth-century judicial decisions, particularly for Supreme Court rulings on civil rights. While analyzing interpretive disputes about slavery, Brandwein offers a detailed rescoring of post-Civil War legislative and constitutional history, including analysis of the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. She identifies the perspectives on Reconstruction that were endorsed or rejected by the Supreme Court. Explaining what it meant--theoretically and practically--to resolve Reconstruction debates with a particular definition of slavery, Brandwein recounts how the Northern Democratic definition of "ending" slavery was not the only definition, just the one that prevailed. Using a familiar historical moment to do new interpretive work, she outlines a sociology of constitutional law, showing how subjective narrative construction can solidify into opaque institutional memory. |
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Contenido
Slavery as an Interpretive Issue in the 39th Reconstruction | 23 |
Republican Slavery Criticism | 42 |
The Supreme Courts Official History | 61 |
Charles Fairman and William Crosskey | 96 |
Recipes for Acceptable History | 132 |
7 | 155 |
Sociology of Constitutional Law | 185 |
Conclusion | 208 |
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Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of ... Pamela Brandwein Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
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A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910 Brent J. Aucoin Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics Keith E. Whittington,R. Daniel Kelemen,Gregory A. Caldeira Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |