Contemporary race discrimination can be difficult to address if strategies are limited to past mechanisms for change, alone.
Without dismissing the effective ways inwhich past strategies can be used today, the larger question is -- what contemporary measures can be used to address the present-day overt as well as the contemporary nuanced/less direct racism we are facing in this country?
Critical Acclaim
"I hope educators at every level are attracted to this book as a teaching tool."
—Derrick Bell, visiting professor of constitutional law, New York University
“Gloria Browne-Marshall's Race, Law, and American Society builds on the great vision of the late great Barbara Jordan: How will
—Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion,
"Brilliantly researched, Gloria Browne-Marshall's history of Race, Law, and American Society is bold and challenging; dramatic, comprehensive, and galvanizing. Everyone concerned about justice and dignity, civility, the law and human survival will want to read, and assign this book."
—Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt
—Joe R. Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts,
—Peter Moskos, author of Cop in the Hood and Professor of Law and Police Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
About the Author
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present. She is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who litigated Civil Rights and Public Law cases for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Community Legal Services, and Southern Poverty Law Center, prior to academe. She is the author of The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts, founder of The Law and Policy Group, Inc.. http://www.lawandpolicygroup.org/
Gloria is a noted playwright of five produced plays. My Juilliard explores the effect of Alzheimer's disease on three generations of Black female artists and a matriarch's secret. Killing Me Softly is a murder mystery set in a Black law firm.
Biography of Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the author of the book Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (Routledge) as well as The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts (Pearson). She is an award-winning playwright produced in New York City, Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. Her plays include My Juilliard, Jeanine, Waverly Place, and Killing Me Softly. Her writing explores issues of race, class, and the consequence of choices made when faced with life's obstacles. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Mystery Writers of America, and PEN America Center.
Ms. Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and the Graduate Center where she teaches Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, and Evidence. She has published articles on racial justice in the field of education as well as book chapters on international criminal tribunals and the rights of female inmates living with HIV/AIDS. She is a Civil Rights attorney who has litigated cases on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
Browne-Marshall's civil rights litigation has involved education, children's healthcare, and criminal justice issues. Gloria has worked with law and policy issues of concern to vulnerable groups, specifically children, women, and people of color in the United States, Africa, and Europe. She has presented interventions before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on issues of racial justice and is the former Legal Advisor to the Permanent Representation to the United Nations in Geneva and New York of the African Bureau of Educational Sciences/OAU. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the Founder and Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc. The Law and Policy Group is a "think tank for the community" that provides policy information, speakers, public outreach, and legal analysis on issues affecting the lives of children, women, and people of color. The Law and Policy Group, Inc. is working on the first ongoing Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls(r).
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall recently returned from England and Africa where she was an exchange scholar researching a new book on race and the law. Gloria currently resides in Manhattan where she is completing a book of essays titled The Haunted Woman.
Ms. Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and the Graduate Center where she teaches Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, and Evidence. She has published articles on racial justice in the field of education as well as book chapters on international criminal tribunals and the rights of female inmates living with HIV/AIDS. She is a Civil Rights attorney who has litigated cases on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
Browne-Marshall's civil rights litigation has involved education, children's healthcare, and criminal justice issues. Gloria has worked with law and policy issues of concern to vulnerable groups, specifically children, women, and people of color in the United States, Africa, and Europe. She has presented interventions before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on issues of racial justice and is the former Legal Advisor to the Permanent Representation to the United Nations in Geneva and New York of the African Bureau of Educational Sciences/OAU. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the Founder and Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc. The Law and Policy Group is a "think tank for the community" that provides policy information, speakers, public outreach, and legal analysis on issues affecting the lives of children, women, and people of color. The Law and Policy Group, Inc. is working on the first ongoing Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls(r).
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall recently returned from England and Africa where she was an exchange scholar researching a new book on race and the law. Gloria currently resides in Manhattan where she is completing a book of essays titled The Haunted Woman.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Contemporary Tools for a Contemporary Fight for Justice
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