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In order for the US Supreme Court to retain its integrity and legitimacy, it needs to reflect society's commitment to diversity and inclusion. Brooks argues that the Court decides cases within a framework of judicial legitimacy that is rooted not in today's society, but in eighteenth-century Anglo-American culture.

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Integrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of fifty years of "progress" in American racial policy? Is there hope for much better? Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law and a writer on matters of race and civil rights, says with frank clarity what few will admit--integration hasn't worked and possibly never will. Equally, he casts doubt on the solution that many African-Americans and mainstream whites have advocat...

Seemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the U.S. offer $20, 000 atonement money to Japanese Americans relocated to concentration camps during World War II, while not even apologizing to African Americans for 250 years of human bondage and another century of institutionalized discrimination? How can the U.S. and Canada best grapple with the genocidal campaigns against...

A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture.