240 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
152 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
240 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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Race, Law, Resistance is an original and important contribution to current theoretical debates on race and law. The central claims are that racial oppression has profoundly influenced the development of legal doctrine and that the production of subjugated figures like the slave and the refugee has been fundamental to the development of legal categories such as contract and tort.
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Chapter 1 The Slave, the Protagonist and the Law; Chapter 2 Fanon and Causation; Chapter 3 Institutional Racism and the Reasonable Man; Chapter 4 Discovering the 'New' Europe; Chapter 5 Postcolonial Theory at the Moment of Judgment; Chapter 6 Unsanctioned Violence;
Biography
Patricia Tuitt
"In providing new perspectives on the relevance of race, this book makes a valuable contribution to literature on race and law... this is a book with original and provocative insights that reveal a constant dynamic between race and law." - Mark Bell in Feminist Legal Studies, issue 14 (2006)
