Representing the Race : : The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer / / Kenneth W. Mack.
Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of African American lawyers who worked in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking justice for diverse clients, they confronted a tension between their r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 20 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Problem of Race and Representation
- 1. The Idea of the Representative Negro
- 2. Racial Identity and the Marketplace for Lawyers
- 3. The Role of the Courtroom in an Era of Segregation
- 4. A Shifting Racial Identity in a Southern Courtroom
- 5. Young Thurgood Marshall Joins the Brotherhood of the Bar
- 6. A Woman in a Fraternity of Lawyers
- 7. Things Fall Apart
- 8. The Strange Journey of Loren Miller
- 9. The Trials of Pauli Murray
- 10. A Lawyer as the Face of Integration in Postwar America
- Conclusion: Race and Representation in a New Century
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index