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Promises to Keep - African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Promises to Keep - African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights
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Widely considered the first history of US Constitutionalism that
places African Americans at the center, Promises to Keep is a
compelling overview of how conflict over African Americans' place
in American society has shaped the Constitution, law, and our
understanding of citizenship and rights. Both authoritative and
accessible, this revised and expanded second edition incorporates
key insights from the last three decades of scholarship and makes
sense of recent developments in civil rights, from the War on Drugs
to the rise of Black Lives Matter. Promises to Keep shows how
African Americans have played a critical role in transforming the
Constitution from a bulwark of slavery to a document that is truer
to the nation's promise of equality. The book begins by examining
debates about race from the Revolutionary Era at the Constitutional
Convention and covers the establishment of civil rights protections
during Reconstruction, the Jim Crow backlash, and the evolution of
the civil rights movement, from the formation of the National
Association for the Advancement for Colored People to legal
victories and massive organized protests. Comprehensive in scope,
this book moves from debates over slavery at the nation's founding
to contemporary discussions of affirmative action, voting rights,
mass incarceration, and police brutality. In the process, it
provides readers with a historical perspective critical to
understanding some of today's most important social and political
issues.
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