Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History Contributor(s): Bender, Steven W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1479899623 ISBN-13: 9781479899623 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - History | United States - General - Political Science |
Dewey: 172.1 |
LCCN: 2014028738 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Mea Culpa, Steven W. Bender examines how the United States' collective shame about its past has shaped the evolution of law and behavior. We regret slavery and segregationist Jim Crow laws. We eventually apologize, while ignoring other oppressions, and our legal response to regret often fails to be transformative for the affected groups. By examining policies and practices that have affected the lives of problems of our time. Drawing on his background as a legal scholar, Bender tackles immigration, the death penalty, the war on terror, reproductive rights, welfare, wage inequity, homelessness, mass incarceration, and same-sex marriage. Ultimately, he argues, it is the dehumanization of human beings that allows for practices to occur that will later be marked as regrettable. And all of us have a stake in standing on the side of history that resists dehumanization. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bender, Steven W.: - Steven W. Bender is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press, 2003), and One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, César Chávez, and the Dream of Dignity. |