num_pages: 336
description: How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while endorsing surveillance of black rebels and using “constitutional” military force against them. In this groundbreaking study, constitutional scholar Mark Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved enormously, both socially and economically, are still at risk of police abuse and largely unprotected from bias crimes.
language: English
title: Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
titlecomplete: Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
genres: Sociology, History, Law, Anti Racist, Social Justice, Race, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Penguin Books