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Racism and the Law

The Legacy and Lessons of Plessy

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Gerald J. Postema

    1. Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: the Sins of Segregation

    • Gerald J. Postema
    Pages 1-24

  3. Plessy V. Ferguson in Libertarian Perspective

    • Mark Tushnet
    Pages 25-28

  4. The Liberty Dimension of Historic and Contemporary Segregation

    • James W. Nickel
    Pages 39-57

  5. Generality and Equality

    • Frederick Schauer
    Pages 59-77

  6. Washington, Du BOIS and Plessy V. Ferguson

    • Bernard R. Boxill
    Pages 79-110
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About this book

Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to counter its devastating effects during the last half century. Ironically, in the current debate over affirmative action, Justice Harlan's eloquent dissent has been used to justify attacks on government affirmative action programs. In this book, five distinguished philosophers and constitutional theorists, working from very different theoretical positions, take a fresh critical look at the moral and political principles underlying this historic decision and Harlan's dissent. They also explore the nature and extent of law's complicity in perpetuating Plessy's racialist aims. Emerging from their varied but complementary analyses is a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the social injustice of racial segregation in its historic and contemporary forms and of resources of the law to reverse it.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Gerald J. Postema

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Racism and the Law

  • Book Subtitle: The Legacy and Lessons of Plessy

  • Editors: Gerald J. Postema

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8977-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4665-4Published: 31 July 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4883-7Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8977-2Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 110

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from LAW AND PHILOSOPHY, 16:3

  • Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Constitutional Law, Public International Law, Ethics

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