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17%OFFAndrew Kull - The Color 8211 Blind Constitution Pap - 9780674142930 - V9780674142930
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The Color 8211 Blind Constitution Pap

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Description for The Color 8211 Blind Constitution Pap paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

From 1840 to 1960 the profoundest claim of Americans who fought the institution of segregation was that the government had no business sorting citizens by the color of their skin. During these years the moral and political attractiveness of the antidiscrimination principle made it the ultimate legal objective of the American civil rights movement. Yet, in the contemporary debate over the politics and constitutional law of race, the vital theme of antidiscrimination has been largely suppressed. Thus a strong line of argument laying down one theoretical basis for the constitutional protection of civil rights has been lost.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674142930
SKU
V9780674142930
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About Andrew Kull
Andrew Kull is Distinguished Senior Lecturer at Texas Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for The Color 8211 Blind Constitution Pap
An important contribution to scholarship and to public discussion of the direction of this nation's legal policies regarding race.
Walter Volkomer
Political Science Quarterly
Kull has written a brilliant and challenging history of an idea: the theory that the Constitution prohibits the law from ever taking account of race. With exquisite insight, Kull traces this idea from ... Read more

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