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Minding the law /

In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how story...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Amsterdam, Anthony G.
Otros Autores: Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pap. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • 1 Invitation to a Journey
  • 2 On Categories
  • 3 Categorizing at the Supreme Court: Missouri v. Jenkins and Michael H. v. Gerald D.
  • 4 On Narrative
  • 5 Narratives at Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Freeman v. Pitts
  • 6 On Rhetorics
  • 7 The Rhetorics of Death: McCleskey v. Kemp
  • 8 On the Dialectic of Culture
  • 9 Race, the Court, and Americaâ€?s Dialectic: From Plessy through Brown to Pitts and Jenkins
  • 10 Reflections on a Voyage
  • Appendix: Analysis of Nouns and Verbs in the Prigg, Pitts, and Brown Opinions
  • Notes
  • Table of Cases