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Race and Equality Law
This collection of essays employs an analytic approach developed in the United States which sheds light on the workings of race in political-legal systems as diverse as South Africa, New Zealand, France and Latin and South America. The essays reveal how legal rules define racism so narrowly and make racial discrimination so difficult to prove.
Author(s) | Edited by Angela P. Harris. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 492 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 12 Mar 2013 |
Availability | Available |
This collection of essays employs an analytic approach developed in the United States which sheds light on the workings of race in political-legal systems as diverse as South Africa, New Zealand, France and Latin and South America. The essays reveal how legal rules define racism so narrowly and make racial discrimination so difficult to prove.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Defining Race and Racism: Re-framing Europe: en-gendered racisms, ethnicities and nationalisms in contemporary Western Europe, Avtar Brah; Red: racism and the American Indian, Bethany R. Berger. Part II Race and Racism: Soci
Angela P. Harris is professor of law at King Hall School of Law at the University of California - Davis, USA.