Ariela Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5201946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariela Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariela |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Society for Legal History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservative Constitutionalism
In this article, I argue that colorblind conservative constitutionalism has its roots not only in Supreme Court jurisprudence and the machinations of national political actors, but also in the deliberate campaigns of opponents of integration at the grassroots. On the local level, resistance to integration was not confined to the South. I offer a case study of grassroots activism in Los Angeles, where white citizens opposed black efforts to integr…
Concluding Thoughts
This symposium issue is first and foremost about crossing boundaries. The people readers have met in these pages—enslavers and enslaved, traders and purchasers, abolitionists and insurrectionaries—were mobile, and their mobility had consequences. The slave traders who changed flags as they moved across international waters are only the most visible exemplars of this phenomenon. Crossing geographic borders often meant crossing boundaries of race a…
Introduction
Nowhere in legal history has the nexus between past and present received more attention in recent years than in the study of slavery. The memory of slavery has become a field of study in itself, and competing histories of slavery have animated contemporary legal and political debates. Today, new histories of capitalism have further illuminated the central role of slavery and the slave trade in building the modern Atlantic world. Across Europe, th…
Comparative Studies of Law, Slavery, and Race in the Americas
This review surveys the historical research comparing U.S. and Latin American law and slavery and describes how it has informed the development of legal studies of slavery in the Americas. The first generation of comparative work on race and slavery relied heavily on law to draw sharp contrasts between U.S. and Latin American slavery. Revisionist social historians criticized those scholars for providing a misleading top-down history of slavery ba…
History, Race, and Prediction
This article reviews Bernard Harcourt's Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2007). It places the rise of actuarialism in criminal law in the United States in the context of trends in other areas of law, as well as in penology. It further suggests that this move toward actuarial thinking cannot in fact be separated from race; that prediction has always involved racial profiling, and that it is no accident th…
Of Portuguese Origin”
The history of race in the nineteenth-century United States is often told as a story of black and white in the South, and white and Indian in the West, with little attention to the intersection between black and Indian. This article explores the history of nineteenth-century America's “little races”—racially ambiguous communities of African, Indian, and European origin up and down the eastern seaboard. These communities came under increasing pres…
Beyond Black and White
Double Character
Journal Article Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom Get access Gross Ariela, Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern CourtroomPrinceton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xi, 263 pp. $39.50. Jenny B. Wahl Jenny B. Wahl Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pa…
Concluding Thoughts
This symposium issue is first and foremost about crossing boundaries. The people readers have met in these pages—enslavers and enslaved, traders and purchasers, abolitionists and insurrectionaries—were mobile, and their mobility had consequences. The slave traders who changed flags as they moved across international waters are only the most visible exemplars of this phenomenon. Crossing geographic borders often meant crossing boundaries of race a…
Double Character
Journal Article Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom Get access Gross Ariela, Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern CourtroomPrinceton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xi, 263 pp. $39.50. Jenny B. Wahl Jenny B. Wahl Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pa…
Beyond Black and White
Of Portuguese Origin”
The history of race in the nineteenth-century United States is often told as a story of black and white in the South, and white and Indian in the West, with little attention to the intersection between black and Indian. This article explores the history of nineteenth-century America's “little races”—racially ambiguous communities of African, Indian, and European origin up and down the eastern seaboard. These communities came under increasing pres…
History, Race, and Prediction
This article reviews Bernard Harcourt's Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2007). It places the rise of actuarialism in criminal law in the United States in the context of trends in other areas of law, as well as in penology. It further suggests that this move toward actuarial thinking cannot in fact be separated from race; that prediction has always involved racial profiling, and that it is no accident th…
Comparative Studies of Law, Slavery, and Race in the Americas
This review surveys the historical research comparing U.S. and Latin American law and slavery and describes how it has informed the development of legal studies of slavery in the Americas. The first generation of comparative work on race and slavery relied heavily on law to draw sharp contrasts between U.S. and Latin American slavery. Revisionist social historians criticized those scholars for providing a misleading top-down history of slavery ba…
Concluding Thoughts
This symposium issue is first and foremost about crossing boundaries. The people readers have met in these pages—enslavers and enslaved, traders and purchasers, abolitionists and insurrectionaries—were mobile, and their mobility had consequences. The slave traders who changed flags as they moved across international waters are only the most visible exemplars of this phenomenon. Crossing geographic borders often meant crossing boundaries of race a…
Introduction
Nowhere in legal history has the nexus between past and present received more attention in recent years than in the study of slavery. The memory of slavery has become a field of study in itself, and competing histories of slavery have animated contemporary legal and political debates. Today, new histories of capitalism have further illuminated the central role of slavery and the slave trade in building the modern Atlantic world. Across Europe, th…
A Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservative Constitutionalism
In this article, I argue that colorblind conservative constitutionalism has its roots not only in Supreme Court jurisprudence and the machinations of national political actors, but also in the deliberate campaigns of opponents of integration at the grassroots. On the local level, resistance to integration was not confined to the South. I offer a case study of grassroots activism in Los Angeles, where white citizens opposed black efforts to integr…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works)