Richard Delgado

Failed Revolutions (eBook, PDF)

Social Reform And The Limits Of Legal Imagination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Forty years after school integration became the law of the land, African-American poverty, isolation, and despair are as deep as ever. Thirty years after the environmental revolution of the 1960s, our environment continues to deteriorate. Why have these and so many other hopeful revolutions failed? Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429700026
• Artikelnr.: 55726569

Autorenporträt

Richard Delgado

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: On the Difficulty of Imagining a Better Society 1. Images of the
Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply
Inscribed Social Ills? 2. Judges' Misjudgments 3. Why Do We Tell the Same
Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma
Part Two: On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying 4. The
Imperial Scholar: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing 5. Gathering with the
Like-Minded: Symposium Battles 6. Pornography and Harm to Women: "No
Empirical Evidence"? Part Three: Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions
(or Saviors) 7. "Our Better Natures": A Revisionist View of the Public
Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory 8. Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power
Part Four: Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric: How the Way Powerful
Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups 9. Scorn and
Imposition-How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail
Reform 10. Conclusion 11. Epilogue