Brando Simeo Starkey

In Defense of Uncle Tom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shadows the usage of 'Uncle Tom' to understand how social norms associated with the phrase were constructed and enforced.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9781107070042
• ISBN-10: 110707004X
• Artikelnr.: 41611039

Autorenporträt

Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. He holds degrees from Ohio State University and Harvard Law School. He was a postgraduate Research Fellow at Harvard Law and a Constance Baker Motley Fellow at the Equal Justice Society, and he previously taught law at Villanova Law School and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Solidarity, social norms, and Uncle Tom
2. Uncle Tom: 1865-1959
3. The unwitting pioneers
4. Uncle Tom: 1960-75
5. No man was safe
6. Uncle Tom today: 1976-present
7. So what about Clarence?
8. The curious case of Uncle Tom
9. What now, Uncle Tom?