- 264 pages
- English
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Plessy v. Ferguson
About This Book
More than the story of one man's case, this book tells the story of entire generations of people marked as "mixed race" in America amid slavery and its aftermath, and being officially denied their multicultural identity and personal rights as a result. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Plessy v. Ferguson was not a simple case of black vs. white separation, but rather a challenging and complex protest for U.S. law to fully accept mixed ancestry and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the long struggle for individual identity and multicultural recognition amid the dehumanizing and depersonalizing forces of African American slavery-and the Anglo-American white supremacy that drove it. The book takes students and general readers through the extended gestation period that gave birth to one of the most oft-mentioned but widely misunderstood landmark law cases in U.S. history. It provides a chronology, brief biographies of key figures, primary documents, an annotated bibliography, and an index all of which provide easy reading and quick reference. Modern readers will find the direct connections between Plessy's story and contemporary racial currents in America intriguing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Chronology
- One: The Arrest: Plessyâs Ticket and Ride
- Two: The Start: A Colony and Creoles of Color
- Three: The Takeover: French, Spanish, American
- Four: The Colorline: Becoming American
- Five: The City: Vive la différence
- Six: The War: Slavery and Segregation
- Seven: The Reconstruction: Hope for Equal Rights
- Eight: The Redemption: Despair for Equal Rights
- Nine: The Beginning of the End: Surging Segregation
- Ten: The Case: From Start to Finish
- Biographies of Key Figures
- Primary Documents
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index