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Race and the Foundations of American Law, First Edition

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Authors
  • Nicole P. Dyszlewski
  • Diana Hassel
  • Monica Teixeira de Sousa
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Book length
880 pages
Publication Date
2025-04-17
Edition
First Edition
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Description
Table of contents
Preface

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Written by a diverse group of authors with varied subject matter expertise and professional backgrounds, Race and the Foundations of American Law explores systemic racism in American law and legal systems. This casebook goes beyond providing students with an historical account of racist laws and policies: It explains how early legal regimes created current systems of racial oppression, and encourages reflection on how lawyers might help our society move toward solutions to these long-festering problems. This innovative text contextualizes legal concepts and cases using historical information, statistics, news stories, and supplementary media resources. Students and professors will appreciate the attention to storytelling, the use of pleadings and other examples of lawyering, the care taken to elevate the varied and distinct experiences of America’s multiple racialized communities, and the relentless focus on identifying and contextualizing the law’s codification of racial hierarchies and White supremacy. In addition, an unapologetic emphasis is placed on exposing the persistent and virulent anti-Blackness that has been a feature of this nation’s legal systems since its founding. Race and the Foundations of American Law is an accessible text for law students that requires no prior knowledge, but nonetheless contains sufficient nuance and research to appeal to the academic.
 
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  • Modular chapters allow for greater flexibility in teaching; chapters can be assigned alongside another casebook.
  • Effective visuals—photographs, charts, diagrams, and illustrations—provide context and help to bring the material to life.
  • A variety of boxed features—Want to Learn More; Time Out for Practice; Timeline; If You Like This, You Will Like That; There is More to the Story—help to engage students and encourage class discussion and further exploration.
  • A variety of excerpted materials are included, such as cases, court documents, poems, book chapters, speeches, and law review articles.
  • Notes, conversational prompts, and discussion questions help to engage students.
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Table of Contents
Summary of Contents
 
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note to Reader
 
Part 1 Historical Origins of White Supremacy
1                     Colonization
2                     Resistance, Rebellion, and Enslavement
3                     Reconstruction: The Constitution’s Reframing, The Dawn of Black Self-Determination, and the Betrayal of Equality
 
Part 2 Systems That Maintain White Supremacy
1                     Voter Suppression
2                     Land, Homeownership, and Housing
3                     Education
4                     Family Separation and Child Welfare
5                     Mass Incarceration
 
Part 3 Going Forward – Remedies
1                     Reparations and Truth-Telling
2                     Legal Education – History and Reform
3                     Abolition, Antiracism, and Afrofuturism
 
Table of Cases
Index
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About the authors
Diana Hassel
Professor

Professor Diana Hassel teaches constitutional law, civil rights, critical race theory, and race and the law. She writes in the areas of civil rights litigation, due process, and integrating issues of racial justice into the law school curriculum, and is one of designers of the course Race and Foundations of American Law.

Professor Hassel has been a professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law since 1995. She earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a JD from Rutgers Law School – Newark.

Monica Teixeira de Sousa

Monica Teixeira de Sousa is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law where she teaches Property, Education Law, Family Law, and Race & the Foundations of American Law. Prior to joining the RWU Law faculty in 2022, Monica was a tenured professor at New England Law | Boston where she created and served as the director of the First Generation Students Program. Before her academic career, Professor Teixeira de Sousa was a staff attorney at Rhode Island Legal Services, where she began practicing in 2002 as a Skadden Fellow and created a school-based legal clinic at her former elementary school in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She represented parents and students in school discipline and special education cases, as well as public benefits and eviction defense matters.

Professor Teixeira de Sousa writes and presents on issues of equity and education law and policy. In 2014, she took a sabbatical from academic teaching and worked as a volunteer attorney in the Public Benefits Unit at Rhode Island Legal Services. Professor Teixeira de Sousa served as a member of the Rhode Island College Upward Bound Program Alumni Scholarship Committee from 2013 through 2023. She currently serves on the board of directors of the nonprofits Justice at Work and Project Weber/RENEW. Professor Teixeira de Sousa is also a member of the Rhode Island Community Investment Cooperative’s Investment Committee, working to support the nation's first Diversified Community Investment Fund (DCIF) and Rhode Island’s first-ever community investment fund, which will invest in local real estate projects and related ventures that create or preserve local ownership and economic activity. Professor Teixeira de Sousa earned her JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002 and her BA from Brown University in 1998.

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Edition
First Edition
Publication date
2025-04-17
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
880
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9798889065784
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798889065807
Subject
Race and the Law
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