This is not civil rights
By: George I. Lovell
Series: Chicago series in law and society; Chicago series in law and society
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226494036; 9780226494043; 9780226494050
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: United States. Dept. of Justice. Civil Rights Section; United States; Complaint letters; Language; State action (Civil rights); Civil rights; Cases; Citizen suits (Civil procedure)
Table of contents: title: Voices from Peoria; title: The CRS's legal and political strategies for improving civil rights protections; title: Dead dogs, bad divorces, and dope-peddling sheriffs: the subject matter of civil rights complaint letters; title: The common place of lawyering: using legal and constitutional arguments to support novel civil rights claims; title: Underlying commitments of rights claiming: extralegal persuasive claims and citizen understandings of law; title: In defense of extravagant rights talk; title: Appendix: notes on the archival sources.