Black and blue : how African Americans judge the U.S. legal system

Black and blue : how African Americans judge the U.S. legal system / James L. Gibson, Michael J. Nelson.

"The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the African American community in the United State...

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Main Authors: Gibson, James L., 1951- (Author), Nelson, Michael J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
Discrimination in justice administration > United States.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
African Americans > Civil rights
Discrimination in justice administration
Race discrimination > Law and legislation
Race relations
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
United States > Race relations.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The legal system and its African American constituents
  • Interracial differences in the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Group identities and experiences with legal authorities
  • Have Ferguson, et al., contaminated black support for legal institutions?
  • Symbols of justice or of social control? Legal authority and the views of African Americans
  • Change in the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Questions : answered and unanswered.

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