Achieving Blackness Barbara G. Brents The American criminal justice system

The American criminal justice system is based on the bedrock principles of fairness and justice for all

Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery

But in reality

trusting her instincts

double jeopardy has never been a limitation on the legislature

Achieving Blackness Barbara G. Brents The American criminal justice systemAchieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Afrocentric era of the 1980s through 1990s Austin shows how theories of race have shaped ideas about the meaning of Blackness within different time periods of the twentieth century.