{"product_id":"making-race-in-the-courtroom-2","title":"Making Race in the Courtroom","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo American city’s history better illustrates both the\u003cbr\u003e\npossibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping\u003cbr\u003e\nracial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was\u003cbr\u003e\nhome to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In\u003cbr\u003e\nthe eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people of color did not belong to the\u003cbr\u003e\nsame race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were\u003cbr\u003e\n“negroes,” free people of color were gens\u003cbr\u003e\nde couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans’s\u003cbr\u003e\ncreoles of color remained legally and culturally distinct from “negroes”\u003cbr\u003e\nthroughout most of the nineteenth century until state mandated segregation\u003cbr\u003e\nlumped together descendants of slaves with descendants of free people of color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMuch of the recent scholarship on New\u003cbr\u003e\nOrleans examines what race relations in the\u003cbr\u003e\nantebellum period looked as well as why antebellum Louisiana’s gens de couleur enjoyed rights and\u003cbr\u003e\nprivileges denied to free blacks throughout most of the United States. This book, however, is less concerned with the what and why questions than with how people\u003cbr\u003e\nof color, acting within institutions of power, shaped those institutions in ways beyond\u003cbr\u003e\ntheir control. As its title suggests, Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood not\u003cbr\u003e\nas a category, but as a process. It seeks to demonstrate the role of\u003cbr\u003e\nfree people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Kenneth R. Aslakson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573473607862,"sku":"9780814724972","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780814724972.jpg?v=1712136801","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/making-race-in-the-courtroom-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}