TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nieman,Donald G.
TI  - Promises to keep: African Americans and the constitutional order, 1776 to the present 
T2  - Bicentennial essays on the Bill of Rights
SN  - 9780190071677 (ebook) :
AV  - E185.61 .N5 2020
U1  - 323.1196073 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - This edition also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - At a time when race remains a divisive issue, 'Promises to Keep' offers a compelling analysis of how conflict over African Americans' place in American society has shaped the Constitution, law, and Americans' understanding of citizenship and rights. Engaging and accessible, yet based on the latest scholarship, it shows how African Americans have played a critical role in transforming the Constitution from a bulwark of slavery to a document that is truer to the nation's promise of equality. Comprehensive in scope, it moves from debates over slavery at the nation's founding to contemporary discussions of affirmative action, voting rights, mass incarceration, and police brutality. In the process, it provides readers with a historical perspective critical to understanding some of today's most compelling issues
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190071639.001.0001
ER  -