TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aslakson,Kenneth R.
TI  - Making race in the courtroom: the legal construction of three races in New Orleans 
SN  - 9780814724972
AV  - KFL411.5.A34 A83 2016
U1  - 342.763350873 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University  Press
KW  - Free African Americans
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 1803-1865
KW  - Louisiana Purchase
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - United States of America, USA
KW  - thema
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - Social discrimination & equal treatment
KW  - Ethnic studies
KW  - Legal history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Much of the recent scholarship on New Orleans examines what race relations in the antebellum period looked as well as why antebellum Louisiana's gens de couleur enjoyed rights and privileges 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 of color, acting within institutions of power, shaped those institutions in ways beyond their control. As its title suggests, 'Making Race in the Courtroom' argues that race is best understood not as a category, but as a process
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814724316.001.0001
ER  -