TY - BOOK ID - 77868931 TI - Shades of freedom : racial politics and presumptions of the American legal process PY - 1996 SN - 0190284099 1280530065 0198028679 1429415835 9781429415835 PB - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans -- Civil rights -- History. KW - African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. KW - Race discrimination -- United States. KW - Racism -- United States -- History. KW - United States -- Race relations -- History. KW - Law - U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Constitutional Law - U.S. KW - African Americans KW - Blacks KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868931 AB - In 'Shades of Freedom', A. Leon Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. ER -