(Source: Rowman & Littlefield)
Hamilton Books
has published a book on black rights during the reconstruction era.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Most observers
and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the
twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays
significant scholarly attention to the intellectual ferment—legal and
political—of the nineteenth-century by tracing the history of black Americans’
civil rights to the postbellum era. By revisiting its faulty foundational
history, this book lends itself to show that, after emancipation, national and
local struggles for racial equality had led to the encoding of racism in the
political order in the American South and the proliferation of racism as an
American institution.Vanessa Holloway draws upon a host of historical, legal,
and philosophical studies as well as legislative histories to construct a
coherent theory of the law’s relevance to the era, questioning how the nexus of
race and politics should be interpreted during Reconstruction. Anchored in the
Reconstruction Amendments, Supreme Court decisions and landmark statutes of the
1860s and 1870s—the Black Codes, the Freedmen’s Bureau, the Civil Rights Act of
1866, the Reconstruction Acts, the Enforcement Acts, and the Civil Rights Act of
1875—Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era offers a new perspective on the
political history of law between the years 1865 and 1877. It is predominant in
the ongoing debates on social justice and racial inequality.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vanessa Holloway
is a historian and philosopher of political theory, legal history, law and
policy, and race and rights. She is also the author of Getting Away With
Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate
(2014) and In Search of Federal Enforcement: The Moral Authority of the
Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot (2015).
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Unwelcome Changes
Part I. Initial Legal Barriers to Racial
Equality, 1865-1868
Chapter 1: Thirteenth Amendment
Chapter 2: Black Codes
Chapter 3: Freedmen’s Bureau
Chapter 4: Civil Rights Act of 1866
Chapter 5: Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Chapter 6: Fourteenth Amendment
Part II. Other Legislative and
Constitutional Issues, 1870-1876
Chapter 7: Fifteenth Amendment
Chapter 8: Enforcement Acts of 1870-71
Chapter 9: Civil Rights Act of 1875
Appendix I. Reconstruction Era Congresses
and U.S. Presidents
Appendix II. Federal Constitutional
Amendments, Acts and Cases
Selected Bibliography
More information
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