We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution

Bruce Ackerman

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Publication Date: 07/09/2018

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Confronting the Twentieth Century
I. Defining the Canon
- 1. Are We a Nation?
- 2. The Living Constitution
- 3. The Assassin’s Bullet
- 4. The New Deal Transformed
- 5. The Turning Point
- 6. Erasure by Judiciary?
II. Landmarks of Reconstruction
- 7. Spheres of Humiliation
- 8. Spheres of Calculation
- 9. Technocracy in the Workplace
- 10. The Breakthrough of 1968
III. Dilemmas of Judicial Leadership
- 11. Brown’s Fate
- 12. The Switch in Time
- 13. Spheres of Intimacy
- 14. Betrayal?
Notes
Index

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