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The Historical Definition of Race Law

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Dominguez Virginia R.. White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986). xviii + 325 pp. Figures, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $28.00
Williamson Joel. A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). x + 316 pp. Bibliography, index. $24.95, $9.95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Robert J. Cottrol
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Law & Society Review , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , 1988 , pp. 865 - 869
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Copyright © 1988 by The Law and Society Association

Footnotes

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Williamson uses the term “radical” to indicate those who advocated the strict segregation, disfranchisement, and subordination of blacks. It is interesting to note that Woodward's (1974: 60–65) research shows that many radicals were initially inclined to make a class-based alliance between the poor whites they represented and blacks. Woodward indicates that many radical populists adopted the extreme racist position only after their efforts to gain black political support had failed or when the alliance became too difficult to manage.

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