Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (American Casebook Series) - Hardcover

Juan F. Perea (author); Richard Delgado (author); Rose Cuison-Villazor (author)

 
9781647083595: Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (American Casebook Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1647083591 ISBN 13: 9781647083595
Publisher: West Academic, 2022

Synopsis

This casebook, which is also a reference work, presents up-to-date interdisciplinary, critical perspectives on race and racism and covers the roles of law and history in shaping the meanings of race in the United States.

Updates the third edition with new material on:

  • police violence against African Americans, and the law that makes police accountability so rare
  • Black Lives Matter and mass demonstrations against unwarranted police violence
  • violence against Asian Americans in the wake of the Covid pandemic
  • the Trump presidency and his attacks on immigrants and immigration, including family separation and the movement to build a wall along the southern border
  • the Supreme Court's continuing attack on voting rights, including the recent Brnovich case
  • extensively updated chapter on Native Americans, including the effects of settler colonial theory on Native history and the recent McGirt case
  • discussion of the conservative attack on Critical Race Theory

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
West Academic
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1647083591
ISBN 13 
9781647083595
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
4
Number of pages
1265