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Richard Kluger's Simple Justice: Race, Class, and United States Imperialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Gilbert G. Gonzalez
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Richard Kluger's monumental Simple Justice reaffirms the long-held liberal contention that any analysis of the complex social relations in the United States must acknowledge the centrality of racism. Racism historically contributed to shaping of the political culture, social interactions, and legal status of groups throughout the United States. This work is of epic proportions, tracing in great detail the evolution of the history of the black struggle to overturn the 1896 Plessy decision which declared the fallacious, antidemocratic notion that “separate but equal” meets the test of the Constitution.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , Spring 2004 , pp. 140 - 148
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Copyright © 2004 by the History of Education Society 

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