White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism Irons

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190914947
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190914943
• Author(s): Irons, Peter

From the arrival of the first English settlers in America until now-a span of four centuries-a minority of white men have created, managed, and perpetuated their control of every major institution, public and private, in American society. And no group in America has suffered more from the harms imposed by white men’s laws than African Americans, with punishment by law often replaced by extra-legal means. Over the centuries, thousands of victims have been murdered by lynching, white mobs, and appalling massacres.

In White Men’s Law, the eminent scholar Peter Irons makes a powerful and persuasive case that African Americans have always been held back by systemic racism in all major institutions that can hold power over them. Based on a wide range of sources, from the painful words of former slaves to test scores that reveal how our education system has failed Black children, this searing and sobering account of legal and extra-legal violence against African Americans peels away the fictions and myths expressed by white racists. The centerpiece of Irons’ account is a 1935 lynching in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The episode produced a photograph of a blonde white girl of about seven looking at the hanging, bullet-riddled body of Rubin Stacy, who was accused of assaulting a white woman. After analyzing this gruesome murder and the visual evidence left behind, Irons poses a foundational question: What historical forces preceded and followed this lynching to spark resistance to Jim Crow segregation, especially in schools that had crippled Black children with inferior education? The answers are rooted in the systemic racism-especially in the institutions of law and education–that African Americans, and growing numbers of white allies, are demanding be dismantled in tangible ways.

Table contents:

1. “Thirty Lashes, Well Laid On”
2. “Dem Was Hard Times, Sho’ Nuff”
3. “Beings of an Inferior Order”
4. “Fighting for White Supremacy”
5. “The Foul Odors of Blacks”
6. “Negroes Plan to Kill All Whites”
7. “Intimate Social Contact with Negro Men”
8. “I Thanked God Right Then and There”
9. “War against the Constitution”
10. “Two Cities—One White, the Other Black”
11. “All Blacks Are Angry”
12. “The Basic Minimal Skills”
Epilogue: “Rooting Out Systemic Racism”
Source Notes and Suggested Reading
Index

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