| Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey Revised Edition Contributor(s): Dudziak, Mary L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691152446 ISBN-13: 9780691152448 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - East - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 960 |
| LCCN: 2011927726 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land--not with weapons, but with legal arguments. Set in the context of Marshall's civil rights work in the United States, this transnational history sheds light on legal reform and social change in the midst of violent upheavals in Africa and America. While the struggle for rights on both continents played out on a global stage, it was a deeply personal journey for Marshall. Even as his belief in the equalizing power of law was challenged during his career as a Supreme Court justice, and in Kenya the new government sacrificed the rights he cherished, Kenya's founding moment remained for him a time and place when all things had seemed possible. |