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Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) - Hardcover

Book 30 of 183: Contemporary World Issues

David B. Mustard

 
9781576072141: Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

Synopsis

Racial Justice in America examines a volatile social issue that is always in the news, focusing on five critical areas: criminal justice, education, employment, living accommodations, and political participation.

By 1451, Africans were used as slaves in the Madeiras and Canary Islands. Not until 1502 did they arrive in the New World. All told, nearly 10 million Africans—equal to the year 2000 populations of Virginia and Mississippi combined—were transplanted across the Atlantic as slaves. Despite the termination of the U.S. slave trade in l807 and emancipation after the Civil War, members of a racial couple married as late as l958 were jailed for one year for breaking Virginia's antimiscegenation law.

So where are we today? This book, which provides historical perspective and a discussion of different types of discrimination, examines how systemic changes have been made and analyzes the debates that still exist.

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About the Author

David B. Mustard is assistant professor of economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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