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The Cultural Lives of Law Ser.: Letters of the Law : Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law by Sora Y. Han (2015, Hardcover)

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Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law (The Cultural Lives of Law) by Han, Sora Y. [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804789118

ISBN-139780804789110

eBay Product ID (ePID)204242757

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLetters of the Law : Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law

SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLaw, Social Science

AuthorSora Y. Han

SeriesThe Cultural Lives of Law Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.5 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-036168

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" Letters of the Law offers a profoundly engaged and sensitive reading of critical race theory. It illuminates not only the foundational antagonism of American law--between racism and equal rights--but also displaces the widely-accepted notion that racial disproportionality is the 'ur-fact of racial inequality.' Han has re-instantiated critical race theory as fundamental to any understanding of the law."--Fred Moten, University of California, Riverside, "The enduring power of critical race theory has been its ability to dissect the law, revealing the multitude of ways in which the legal process has reinforced, and continues to reinforce, discrimination. Han's book is part of this genre, succinctly, cogently, and in a creative fashion, exploring the fantasy of colorblindness rooted in American constitutional law . . . Recommended."--D. Schultz, CHOICE, " Letters of the Law offers a profoundly engaged and sensitive reading of critical race theory. It illuminates not only the foundational antagonism of American law--between racism and equal rights--but also displaces the widely-accepted notion that racial disproportionality is the 'ur-fact of racial inequality.' Han has re-instantiated critical race theory as fundamental to any understanding of the law."--Fred Moten, UC Riverside, "Han proposes reading practices that enable us to counter law's injunction against imagination so that we can glimpse the camouflaged memories of slavery and freedom struggles that have become the foundational dream world of the law. Herein, she deftly argues, resides our hope to transform law and the manifold social hierarchies it protects and reproduces."--Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, "A stunning inquiry into the racial haunt of the law, Letters of the Law is a rare example of that ornery beast we call 'interdisciplinary scholarship.' In this compelling and beautiful work, Han proves that the time of slavery is with us still."—Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt, author of The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, "A stunning inquiry into the racial haunt of the law, Letters of the Law is a rare example of that ornery beast we call 'interdisciplinary scholarship.' In this compelling and beautiful work, Han proves that the time of slavery is with us still."--Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt, author of The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, " Letters of the Law offers a profoundly engaged and sensitive reading of critical race theory. It illuminates not only the foundational antagonism of American law—between racism and equal rights—but also displaces the widely-accepted notion that racial disproportionality is the 'ur-fact of racial inequality.' Han has re-instantiated critical race theory as fundamental to any understanding of the law."—Fred Moten, UC Riverside, "Han proposes reading practices that enable us to counter law's injunction against imagination so that we can glimpse the camouflaged memories of slavery and freedom struggles that have become the foundational dream world of the law. Herein, she deftly argues, resides our hope to transform law and the manifold social hierarchies it protects and reproduces."—Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, "A stunning inquiry into the racial haunt of the law, Letters of the Law is a rare example of that ornery beast we call 'interdisciplinary scholarship.' In this compelling and beautiful work, Han proves that the time of slavery is with us still."--Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University, author of The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal342.7308/73

SynopsisOne of the hallmark features of the post-civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the Law , Sora Y. Han argues that colorblindness is a foundational fantasy of law that not only informs individual and collective ideas of race, but also structures the imaginative capacities of American legal interpretation. Han develops a critique of colorblindness by deconstructing the law's central doctrines on due process, citizenship, equality, punishment and individual liberty, in order to expose how racial slavery and the ongoing struggle for abolition continue to haunt the law's reliance on the fantasy of colorblindness. Letters of the Law provides highly original readings of iconic Supreme Court cases on racial inequality--spanning Japanese internment to affirmative action, policing to prisoner rights, Jim Crow segregation to sexual freedom. Han's analysis provides readers with new perspectives on many urgent social issues of our time, including mass incarceration, educational segregation, state intrusions on privacy, and neoliberal investments in citizenship. But more importantly, Han compels readers to reconsider how the diverse legacies of civil rights reform archived in American law might be rewritten as a heterogeneous practice of black freedom struggle.

LC Classification NumberKF4755