Religion, Race, Rights
Book description
The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and linked to the particularities of…
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1 author picked Religion, Race, Rights as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don’t think I really understood the relationship between religious faith, constructions of race, and the law before reading this book.
Darian-Smith walks the reader through several essential cases from the 16th to the 21st centuries, all grounded in thorough analysis and accessible prose. Reading her chapter on the Dawes Act and the way the law was weaponized against Native communities in the U.S. knocked me on my heels, while her final chapters on the Nuremberg war trials and the challenges of neoliberalism in an age of globalization redefined my understanding of our modern world.
With illustrations throughout and an…
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