Spann, Girardeau A
by Race Against the Court
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New York. 1993. New York University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0814779638. 266 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Elyse Strongin. keywords: Law America Minorities. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The controversies surrounding the nominations, confirmations, and rejections of recent Supreme Court Justices, and the increasingly conservative nature of the Court, have focused attention on the Supreme Court as never before. Although the Supreme Court is commonly understood to be the guardian of minority rights against the tyranny of the majority, Race Against the Court argues that the Court has never successfully performed this function. Rather the actual function of the Court has been to perpetuate the subordination of racial minorities by operating as an undetected agent of majoritarian preferences in the political process. In this provocative, controversial, and timely work, Girardeau Spann illustrates how the selection process for Supreme Court justices ensures that they will share the political preferences of the elite majority that runs the nation. Customary safeguards that are designed to protect the judicial process from majoritarian predispositions, Spann contends, cannot successfully insulate judicial decision-making from the pervasive societal pressures that exist to discount racial minority interests. The case most often cited as the icon of Court sensitivity to minority rights, Brown v. Board of Education, has more recently served to lull minorities into believing that efforts at political self-determination are futile, fostering a seductive dependence and overreliance on the Court as the caretaker of minority rights. RACE AGAINST THE COURTdemonstrates how the Court has centralized the law of affirmative action in a way that stymies minority efforts for meaningful political and economic gain and how it has legitimated the legal status quo in a way that causes minorities never even to question the inevitability of their subordinate social status. Spann contends that racial minorities would be better off seeking to advance their interests in the pluralist political process and proposes a novel strategy for minorities to pursue in order to extricate themselves from the seemingly inescapable grasp of Supreme Court protection'. inventory #18062 ISBN: 0814779638.
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- Title
- Spann, Girardeau A
- Author
- Race Against the Court
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0814779638
- ISBN 13
- 9780814779637
- Publisher
- Nyu Press
- Place of Publication
- New York And London
- This edition first published
- 1993-01
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