Race and the Law

Catalog description

Examines issues of race within American law through a historical and modern context. Discusses how race and ethnicity affect legislatures, court rooms and communities. Also examines the use of the law both to perpetuate and to reduce and eliminate racial injustice in the United States from the formulation of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution through slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, desegregation, the war on drugs, and up through the present day. Explores the biases and prejudices shared by judges, juries, parties, clients and lawyers, as well as our own biases and how those shape the way we view the law.