Kenneth W Mack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth W Mack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth W |
| FAMILY NAME | Mack |
| SIGNATURE | MACK K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Maurice C. Daniels. Saving the Soul of Georgia
During the past several decades, civil rights history has moved decisively away from the narrative arcs that once dominated the field: one arc was defined by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) litigation campaign that resulted in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and another ran roughly from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s to black power. The field has felt…
Daughter of the Empire State
Jacqueline A. McLeod's Daughter of the Empire State is a biography of a figure whose life story should be of interest to the public and to scholars in many fields. The product of an interracial marriage, Jane Bolin moved through life as an African American even as her personal appearance prompted much commentary. Nonetheless, she seemed to fit comfortably into a familial tradition of black leadership that stretched back to free blacks in the ante…
Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement
It is a pleasure to comment on Nancy MacLean's hugely important book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace as an example of what I might call “bringing the law back in” to the history of the civil rights movement. A generation ago, the idea that law needed to be introduced into this history would have seemed nonsensical. At that time, law provided one of the central touchstones in the historical narrative of the struggle fo…
Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941
What was the role of law and lawyers in the civil rights movement? Recent work has emphasized a tension between the legal strategies of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a commitment to mass movement politics and economic populism. This article takes up that question by examining the everyday lives and litigation performances of depression-era black lawyers affiliated with the NAACP, arguing that the schol…
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the debate over Woodward's thesis implicates familar but outmoded ways of looking at sociolegal change and Southern society, the article proposes a reorientation of this debate using theoretical perspectives taken from recent work by…
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the debate over Woodward's thesis implicates familar but outmoded ways of looking at sociolegal change and Southern society, the article proposes a reorientation of this debate using theoretical perspectives taken from recent work by…
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the debate over Woodward's thesis implicates familar but outmoded ways of looking at sociolegal change and Southern society, the article proposes a reorientation of this debate using theoretical perspectives taken from recent work by…
Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement
It is a pleasure to comment on Nancy MacLean's hugely important book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace as an example of what I might call “bringing the law back in” to the history of the civil rights movement. A generation ago, the idea that law needed to be introduced into this history would have seemed nonsensical. At that time, law provided one of the central touchstones in the historical narrative of the struggle fo…
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the debate over Woodward's thesis implicates familar but outmoded ways of looking at sociolegal change and Southern society, the article proposes a reorientation of this debate using theoretical perspectives taken from recent work by…
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the debate over Woodward's thesis implicates familar but outmoded ways of looking at sociolegal change and Southern society, the article proposes a reorientation of this debate using theoretical perspectives taken from recent work by…
Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South
This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the debate over Woodward's thesis implicates familar but outmoded ways of looking at sociolegal change and Southern society, the article proposes a reorientation of this debate using theoretical perspectives taken from recent work by…
Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941
What was the role of law and lawyers in the civil rights movement? Recent work has emphasized a tension between the legal strategies of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a commitment to mass movement politics and economic populism. This article takes up that question by examining the everyday lives and litigation performances of depression-era black lawyers affiliated with the NAACP, arguing that the schol…
Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement
It is a pleasure to comment on Nancy MacLean's hugely important book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace as an example of what I might call “bringing the law back in” to the history of the civil rights movement. A generation ago, the idea that law needed to be introduced into this history would have seemed nonsensical. At that time, law provided one of the central touchstones in the historical narrative of the struggle fo…
Daughter of the Empire State
Jacqueline A. McLeod's Daughter of the Empire State is a biography of a figure whose life story should be of interest to the public and to scholars in many fields. The product of an interracial marriage, Jane Bolin moved through life as an African American even as her personal appearance prompted much commentary. Nonetheless, she seemed to fit comfortably into a familial tradition of black leadership that stretched back to free blacks in the ante…
Maurice C. Daniels. Saving the Soul of Georgia
During the past several decades, civil rights history has moved decisively away from the narrative arcs that once dominated the field: one arc was defined by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) litigation campaign that resulted in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and another ran roughly from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s to black power. The field has felt…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · American History and Culture (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works) · Civil rights (3 works)