(Source: CUP)
Cambridge University Press is publishing a new
book dealing with the US’ Civil Rights Acts of the 19th century and
the foundations of civil rights.
ABOUT THE BOOK
All of us are
entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality
education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary
assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the
protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only
antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil
society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L.
West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point
of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all
of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing.
Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on
non-discrimination and thus have 'hollowed out' this broader meaning of civil
rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees
that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects
central to civil society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
All of us are
entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality
education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary
assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the
protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only
antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil
society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L.
West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point
of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all
of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing.
Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on
non-discrimination and thus have 'hollowed out' this broader meaning of civil
rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees
that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects
central to civil society.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The antidiscrimination principle and its
discontents
2. Residues of injustice: formal equality and
civil rights
3. Toward a jurisprudence of civil rights
4. A frayed quilt: our lost, imperfect, and
unimagined civil rights
5. Protecting rights to enter: constitutional
rights and civil rights in conflict
Conclusion.
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