Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present

by Donald G. Nieman

Book Overview

African-Americans have had an ambivalent relationship with the Constitution for more than two hundred years. Throughout most of American history, racist interpretations of the Constitution have sanctioned a legal system supportive of slavery, marked blacks as inferiors, rendered them politically powerless, and denied them justice and access to society's resources. Yet both black and white opponents of slavery and racial subordination--from antebellum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195055616
• ISBN13: 9780195055610
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 5.4"