Black Resistance White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America - Hardcover

Berry, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071399102X ISBN 13: 9780713991024

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1994

Synopsis

Updated for the 1990s, this indictment of use of the Constitution to maintain a status quo discusses injustices ranging from the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Rodney King beating. 17,500 first printing. $17,500 ad/promo.

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Review:

"Once you've read this book, your understanding of race relations and your vision of America will be changed forever."--Don Edwards, former U.S. Representative

"Black Resistance/White Law offers an opportunity to revisit a historical experience that the successes of the civil rights movement of the past fifty years have allowed many of us to forget."--Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Mary Berry is the nation's favourite baker and author of over 70 books. She is the much-loved judge on The Great British Bake Off and has been teaching the nation to cook for over four decades.

Cordon Bleu trained in Paris, Mary began her career as a magazine cookery editor before publishing her first cookery book in 1966. In 2009 Mary was awarded the highly coveted Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 she was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 071399102X
• ISBN 13: 9780713991024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336