(Source: W.W. Norton)
W.W. Norton
has published a book on challenges to equality in American history.
ABOUT THE
BOOK
A
path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to
overcome injustice—and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time.
Equality is
easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this
accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L.
Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren’t necessarily about
equality at all—ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and
protecting free speech—have often been used to overcome resistance to justice
and remain vital today.
Practical
Equality is an
original and compelling book on the intersection of law and society. Tsai, a
leading expert on constitutional law who has written widely in the popular
press, traces challenges to equality throughout American history: from the
oppression of emancipated slaves after the Civil War to the internment of
Japanese Americans during World War II to President Trump’s ban on Muslim
travelers. He applies lessons from these and other past struggles to such
pressing contemporary issues as the rights of sexual minorities and the
homeless, racism in the criminal justice system, police brutality, voting
restrictions, oppressive measures against migrants, and more.
Deeply
researched and well argued, Practical Equality offers a sense
of optimism and a guide to pursuing equality for activists, lawyers, public
officials, and concerned citizens.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Robert L.
Tsai is professor of law at American University. He is the author Practical
Equality and America’s Forgotten Constitutions and his essays have appeared in
Boston Globe, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Politico, Boston
Review, and Slate. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.
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