Blacks and Rights: A Bittersweet Legacy

Law, Culture and the Humanities

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 420-439

  Darby, Derrick ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84998010780     PISSN: 17438721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1743872106069826     Document Type: Article

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1. Law, Culture and the Humanities 2006; 2: 420–439.
2. Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393 (1857).
3. Derrick A. Bell, Jr., ed., Civil Rights: Leading Cases (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1980), p. 6.
4. Frederick Douglass, ‘Composite Nation’, in Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham, eds., Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787–1900 (Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press, 1998), p. 497.
5. J.H. Van Evrie, White Supremacy and Negro Subordination or, Negroes A Subordinate Race, and (so-called) Slavery Its Normal Condition, esp. chap. 3, in John David Smith, ed., Anti-Black Thought: 1863–1925 Vol. 3 (New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993).
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7. William Sumner Jenkins, Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South (Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1935).
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10. Michael P. Zuckert, The Natural Rights Republic (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
11. Charles W. Mills, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1998).
12. Jenkins, William Sumner, p. 34.
13. Jenkins, William Sumner, p. 252.
14. Jenkins contends: “[t]he inferiority of the Negro was almost universally accepted in the South by all groups of pro-slavery theorists as a great primary truth,” p. 252.
15. Thomas Jefferson, expressed this view in his Notes on the State of Virginia.
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19. Derrick Darby, ‘Two Conceptions of Rights Possession’, Social Theory and Practice 27 (2001), pp. 387–417.
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21. Derrick Darby, ‘Grounding Rights in Social Practices: A Defence’, Res Publica (2003), pp. 1–18.
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23. Benjamin Miller, an ex-slave in a Freedmen's Inquiry Commission interview, cited in John W. Blassingame, ed., Slave Testimony (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1977), p. 439.
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26. Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York, Free Press, 1994).
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29. Michael Levin, Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean (Westport, Praeger Publishers, 1997).
30. Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steech, Lawrence Bobo, and Maria Krysan, Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997), p. 170.
31. Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism (New York, Free Press, 1995).
32. Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York, Basic Books, 1994).
33. Schuman, Steech, Bobo, and Krysan, chapter 3.
34. Donald R. Kinder and Tali Mendelberg, ‘Individualism Reconsidered: Principles and Prejudice in Contemporary American Opinion,’ in David O. Sears, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Bobo, eds., Racialized Politics: The Debate About Racism in America (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 73.
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39. Lawrence Bobo, James R. Kluegel, and Ryan A. Smith, ‘Laissez-faire Racism: The Crystallization of a Kinder, Gentler, Antiblack Ideology,’ in Steven A. Tuch and Jack K. Martin, eds., Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change (Westport, Praeger Publishers, 1997), pp. 15–41.
40. Lawrence Bobo, ‘Racial Beliefs about Affirmative Action: Assessing the Effects of Interests, Group Threat, Ideology, and Racism,’ in Racialized Politics, pp. 137–164.
41. David O. Sears, John J. Hetts, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Bobo, ‘Race in American Politics: Framing the Debates’ in Racialized Politics, p. 25.
42. Gordon W. Allport, The Nature of Prejudice (Garden City, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958).