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Representing the Race : The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674065307
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representing the RaceDDC classification:
  • 340.092/2
LOC classification:
  • KF372
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Problem of Race and Rep -- 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.
Summary: Representing the Race tells the story of African American lawyers who, during the era of segregation, confronted a tension between their racial and professional identities. Their untold stories pose the unsettling question: What, ultimately, does it mean to "represent" a minority group in the give-and-take of American law and politics?.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Problem of Race and Rep -- 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.

Representing the Race tells the story of African American lawyers who, during the era of segregation, confronted a tension between their racial and professional identities. Their untold stories pose the unsettling question: What, ultimately, does it mean to "represent" a minority group in the give-and-take of American law and politics?.

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