Race, Citizenship, and Law in American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 2002 M01 24 - 299 pages Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: American literature History and criticism, Law in literature, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Views on slavery, African Americans in literature, Citizenship in literature, Slavery in literature, Racism in literature, Law and literature, Race in literature. |
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... racial oppression were evil . By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American litera- ture and American constitutional law , Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of ...
... racial oppression were evil . By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American litera- ture and American constitutional law , Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of ...
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... racial discrimination : Still 102 years after the 14th Amendment was adopted , we find that hundreds of thousands of black children are denied equal opportunities of education ; like numbers of adults are denied the privilege of voting ...
... racial discrimination : Still 102 years after the 14th Amendment was adopted , we find that hundreds of thousands of black children are denied equal opportunities of education ; like numbers of adults are denied the privilege of voting ...
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... racial discrimination.4 Judicial recognition that higher law constitutionalism draws heavily , if often covertly , on cultural and literary sources can be found in the counter - arguments of its opponents , such as Justice Antonin ...
... racial discrimination.4 Judicial recognition that higher law constitutionalism draws heavily , if often covertly , on cultural and literary sources can be found in the counter - arguments of its opponents , such as Justice Antonin ...
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... racial discrimination represented an important step in the direction of a better , more inclusive moral consensus recognizing black Americans as citizens . The politically engaged form of higher law rea- soning deployed by these ...
... racial discrimination represented an important step in the direction of a better , more inclusive moral consensus recognizing black Americans as citizens . The politically engaged form of higher law rea- soning deployed by these ...
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... racial justice . " Neither side recognizes that it shares with its putative opponent the same reduction of justice to the possession of power . Of necessity , I have ranged broadly across disciplinary lines . Nineteenth - century higher ...
... racial justice . " Neither side recognizes that it shares with its putative opponent the same reduction of justice to the possession of power . Of necessity , I have ranged broadly across disciplinary lines . Nineteenth - century higher ...
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Page 5 - Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?