Pamela Brandwein: 2 books
Reconstructing Reconstruction
The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of slavery? If the Thirteenth Amendment abolished it in 1865, why did most of the disputed points during the Reconstruction...
by Pamela Brandwein
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in...