Cengage Learning

Race and the Law, 1st Edition

  • Jenny MacKay
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  • ISBN-10: 1410381021
  • ISBN-13: 9781410381026
  • DDC: 342.7308
  • Grade Level Range: 6th Grade - 8th Grade
  • 180 Pages | eBook
  • Original Copyright 2018 | Published/Released March 2018
  • This publication's content originally published in print form: 2018

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“Equality and justice for all.” This founding principle of America has been evolving through fits and starts since the country’s inception. Race and the Law traces the intersection of race and the law from America’s earliest days, through the era of slavery, the civil rights movement, and into the twenty-first century. Various points-of view and key players in the public discourse are represented, with a clear summary of positions. Contemporary opinions from across the political and cultural spectrum are represented.

Features and Benefits

  • Primary Source sidebars with prompts to help students understand, analyze, and evaluate the source.
  • Callouts that encourage students to analyze, synthesize, engage, evaluate, and recall the information in the text.
  • Sidebars draw attention to important people, organizations, historical moments, and comparing positions or arguments related to the topic.
  • An appendix with assorted printable/downloadable worksheets, tip sheets, student performance checklists, and evaluation guidelines that teachers can use in the classroom or students can use independently.
  • Chronology, recommended sources for further research, and subject index.

What's New

  • Video content, carefully selected and/or created to support and enhance the text, is integrated into the text of the eBook.
  • Includes teacher and classroom resources such as an instructional guide, concrete curriculum connections, and activities.

Alternate Formats

  • Casebound Edition

    ISBN-10: 1410380963 | ISBN-13: 9781410380968

Table of Contents

Instructor’s Guide.
Introduction.
Timeline.
Chapter 1: Race in a New Nation.
Chapter 2: Boundaries of Race.
Chapter 3: Racial Debates after Slavery.
Chapter 4: A Separated Society.
Chapter 5: The March toward Civil Rights.
Chapter 6: Racial Issues in the Twenty-First Century.
Organizations to Contact.
Sources for More Information.
Educator Resources.
Index.

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