BLACK TRIALS: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
Mark Stuart Weiner, . . Knopf, $26.95 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-375-40981-3
This book is the best of its kind—a serious, deeply felt reflection on the weight of history on contemporary affairs. Weiner, a historian/attorney at Rutgers School of Law, examines how court proceedings involving black people—and whites trying to assist them—have served as windows onto race relations and the power of whites over blacks in the U.S. from its earliest days. Using specific cases (such as those of the
Reviewed on: 08/16/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 293 pages - 978-0-307-42503-4
Paperback - 448 pages - 978-0-375-70884-8