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Shades of freedom : racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process

In 'Shades of Freedom', A. Leon Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law.
eBook, English, 1996
Oxford University Press, New York, 1996
History
1 online resource (xxxii, 304 pages) : illustrations
9786610530069, 9780195038224, 6610530068, 0195038223
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