Mary L Dudziak
Biographic Data
| ID | 535077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary L Dudziak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudziak |
| SIGNATURE | DUDZIAK M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5929-4440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Emotion and Diplomacy in Costigliola's Kennan
The Unhappy Legal History of the War Powers Resolution
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The Gloss of War: Revisiting the Korean War’s Legacy
In war powers analysis, reliance on the interpretive method of historical practice, also called the “gloss of history,” has made history a technology of the forever war. This approach draws upon the history of U.S. military conflict to interpret the scope of presidential war power and embeds past actions into the separation of powers. There is a crucial flaw in this methodology, however. The understanding of history in historical gloss is not inf…
"Somewhere "Over the Horizon
Somewhere "Over the Horizon" Mary L. Dudziak (bio) I am everywhere, but to the eyes of common mortals, I am invisible. —the Wizard of Oz On August 31, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that the war in Afghanistan had ended. It was the nation's longest war, he emphasized, thereby severing one segment of the post-9/11 "war on terror" from all the rest.1 Whatever this war had been, he made it clear that the use of US deadly military force in the r…
The Numbers: Encountering Casualties in the Era of Covid-19
The Numbers: Encountering Casualties in the Era of Covid-19 It was hard to shake off the dread in the summer of 2020 as Covid-19 ravaged the United States. My husband and I focused on keeping family members safe, which was something that, at the time, seemed manageable. Widening the gaze to the country and the world left me drowning in tragedy. Then one morning a story in my Twitter feed stopped me in my tracks. Someone I had never heard of had d…
The Outcome of Influence: Hitler’s American Model and Transnational Legal History
Review of James Q. Whitman's Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
“You didn’t see him lying … beside the gravel road in France”: Death, Distance, and American War Politics
Patrick Hagopian. American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law
The U.S. has the world’s most powerful military force, with installations around the world. The country also promotes the development of global legal norms and institutions and has criticized foreign leaders for abuses of human rights. The question of whether the rule of law applies to America’s own military is at the heart of Patrick Hagopian’s searing study American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law. The book is a thoroug…
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
In Representing the Race Kenneth W. Mack argues that a dominant narrative of African American lawyers as representatives of a minority seeking integration misses the mediating role lawyers played as they were “caught between the needs and desires of the larger, white-dominated culture, and those of their own racial group” (p. 4). As black lawyers acted as advocates for individual clients, they were also representatives of their race when they app…
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Marshall and Mboya
This chapter details the events leading up to Thurgood Marshall's adventure in Kenya. Marshall was a civil rights legend in America when he began his African journey. It became one of the great adventures of his life. He followed a path well worn by others, but his journey would be different. He would not travel by riverboat into the Congo, as had American missionaries, or sail along the West African coast as did the poet Langston Hughes. Marshal…
Discriminating Friends
This chapter details events following Marshall's arrival in Kenya in 1963. It had been three years since Marshall had last been to the country. In early 1960, independence had been a demand. Now it was an inevitability, with ceremonies scheduled for December. Jomo Kenyatta, still in detention in 1960, his influence feared by the British and Americans, had instead emerged as a moderating voice after his release in 1961. He had carried the Kenya Af…
"How 9/11 Made "History
In classrooms across the country on September 11, 2001, lesson plans were abruptly abandoned. Students and teachers gathered around televisions, sharing the sense that “history” was being made before their eyes. Patricia Latessa, a Cincinnati high school teacher, turned on the cafeteria television “and watched history unfold.” She reflected as she watched about how the scenes of airplanes flying into buildings would impact her students (Figure 1)…
Introduction to Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits the hallmark of the civil rights movement. What role, he wondered, could he now play? When in 1960 Kenyan independence leaders asked him to help write their constitution, Marshall thre…
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Exporting American Dreams examines a brief but significant episode in Thurgood Marshall's storied career. After winning the landmark victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Marshall became an international celebrity. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1955 and anointed “Mr. Civil Rights” by the press. Despite the breakthrough in Brown, the late 1950s and early 1960s were a difficult period for Marshall. The southern states re…
The 1963 March on Washington: At Home and Abroad
Tandis que les Etats-Unis se preparent a la March on Washington pour les droits civiques, la communaute americaine a Paris organise un defile similaire, parmi d’autres manifestations solidaires de par le monde. Les retombees sur la politique etrangere des Etats-Unis de ce soutien populaire international au mouvement pour les droits civiques seront importantes. En reponse, le gouvernement produira une serie de reecritures de la manifestation de Wa…
Interchange: History in the Professional Schools
Introduction: Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
On the coast, at the California-Mexico border, a rusted sheath of metal extends from the beach into the ocean, dividing the waves. There, grains of sand become attributes of different sovereignties. Two nations are brought together at this edge; at the same time, their inhabitants are marked with national identities; they come together wearing the marks of sovereignty inscribed by the border. Yet while it classifies and codifies subjects, the bor…
Brown as a Cold War Case
United States Supreme Court has given a new definition to unAmericanism, Roscoe Drummond wrote in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune on May 21, 1954, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. It has ruled that segregated public schools are un-Constitutional—and therefore un-American. The Brown decision was timely, he argued, because it comes at a moment when our leadership of the free peoples demands…
Foreign Affairs and Domestic Reform
Hill vs. Thomas
Standing against Dragons: Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear
Journal Article Standing against Dragons: Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear. By Sarah Hart Brown. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xx, 308 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-2207-6.) Get access Mary L. Dudziak Mary L. Dudziak University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 300–301, …
The Little Rock Crisis and Foreign Affairs: Race, Resistance and the Image of American Democracy
Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative
At the height of the McCarthy era, when Congressional committees were exposing communist infiltration in many areas of American life, the Supreme Court was upholding loyalty oath requirements, and the executive branch was ferreting out alleged communists in government, the U.S. Attorney General filed a pro-civil rights brief in what would become one of the most celebrated civil rights cases in American history: Brown v. Board of Education. Althou…
Introduction: Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
On the coast, at the California-Mexico border, a rusted sheath of metal extends from the beach into the ocean, dividing the waves. There, grains of sand become attributes of different sovereignties. Two nations are brought together at this edge; at the same time, their inhabitants are marked with national identities; they come together wearing the marks of sovereignty inscribed by the border. Yet while it classifies and codifies subjects, the bor…
Brown as a Cold War Case
United States Supreme Court has given a new definition to unAmericanism, Roscoe Drummond wrote in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune on May 21, 1954, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. It has ruled that segregated public schools are un-Constitutional—and therefore un-American. The Brown decision was timely, he argued, because it comes at a moment when our leadership of the free peoples demands…
Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War
Journal Article Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War Get access Mary L. Dudziak Mary L. Dudziak professor of law University of Iowa College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 543–570, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081171 Published: 01 September 1994
The Limits of Good Faith: Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1950–1956
In September of 1953, eight months before Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas would be decided, the Topeka Board of Education voted to abolish segregation in its schools. Some Topekans thought it curious that the school board would vote to abolish segregation when its case defending segregation was pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. When Edward Goss of the Topeka Civic Club asked the board why it hadn't waited for the Court's decision, …
Interchange: History in the Professional Schools
"Somewhere "Over the Horizon
Somewhere "Over the Horizon" Mary L. Dudziak (bio) I am everywhere, but to the eyes of common mortals, I am invisible. —the Wizard of Oz On August 31, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that the war in Afghanistan had ended. It was the nation's longest war, he emphasized, thereby severing one segment of the post-9/11 "war on terror" from all the rest.1 Whatever this war had been, he made it clear that the use of US deadly military force in the r…
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Exporting American Dreams examines a brief but significant episode in Thurgood Marshall's storied career. After winning the landmark victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Marshall became an international celebrity. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1955 and anointed “Mr. Civil Rights” by the press. Despite the breakthrough in Brown, the late 1950s and early 1960s were a difficult period for Marshall. The southern states re…
The Limits of Good Faith: Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1950–1956
In September of 1953, eight months before Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas would be decided, the Topeka Board of Education voted to abolish segregation in its schools. Some Topekans thought it curious that the school board would vote to abolish segregation when its case defending segregation was pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. When Edward Goss of the Topeka Civic Club asked the board why it hadn't waited for the Court's decision, …
Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative
At the height of the McCarthy era, when Congressional committees were exposing communist infiltration in many areas of American life, the Supreme Court was upholding loyalty oath requirements, and the executive branch was ferreting out alleged communists in government, the U.S. Attorney General filed a pro-civil rights brief in what would become one of the most celebrated civil rights cases in American history: Brown v. Board of Education. Althou…
The National Lawyers Guild: From Roosevelt Through Reagan
Journal Article The National Lawyers Guild: From Roosevelt through Reagan Get access Ginger Ann Fagan Tobin Eugene M., eds., The National Lawyers Guild: From Roosevelt through Reagan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. 344 pp. $39.95. Mary L. Dudziak Mary L. Dudziak University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 1990, Pages 104–10…
Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War
Journal Article Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War Get access Mary L. Dudziak Mary L. Dudziak professor of law University of Iowa College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 543–570, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081171 Published: 01 September 1994
The Little Rock Crisis and Foreign Affairs: Race, Resistance and the Image of American Democracy
Standing against Dragons: Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear
Journal Article Standing against Dragons: Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear. By Sarah Hart Brown. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xx, 308 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-2207-6.) Get access Mary L. Dudziak Mary L. Dudziak University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 300–301, …
Foreign Affairs and Domestic Reform
Hill vs. Thomas
Brown as a Cold War Case
United States Supreme Court has given a new definition to unAmericanism, Roscoe Drummond wrote in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune on May 21, 1954, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. It has ruled that segregated public schools are un-Constitutional—and therefore un-American. The Brown decision was timely, he argued, because it comes at a moment when our leadership of the free peoples demands…
Interchange: History in the Professional Schools
Introduction: Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
On the coast, at the California-Mexico border, a rusted sheath of metal extends from the beach into the ocean, dividing the waves. There, grains of sand become attributes of different sovereignties. Two nations are brought together at this edge; at the same time, their inhabitants are marked with national identities; they come together wearing the marks of sovereignty inscribed by the border. Yet while it classifies and codifies subjects, the bor…
The 1963 March on Washington: At Home and Abroad
Tandis que les Etats-Unis se preparent a la March on Washington pour les droits civiques, la communaute americaine a Paris organise un defile similaire, parmi d’autres manifestations solidaires de par le monde. Les retombees sur la politique etrangere des Etats-Unis de ce soutien populaire international au mouvement pour les droits civiques seront importantes. En reponse, le gouvernement produira une serie de reecritures de la manifestation de Wa…
Introduction to Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits the hallmark of the civil rights movement. What role, he wondered, could he now play? When in 1960 Kenyan independence leaders asked him to help write their constitution, Marshall thre…
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Exporting American Dreams examines a brief but significant episode in Thurgood Marshall's storied career. After winning the landmark victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Marshall became an international celebrity. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1955 and anointed “Mr. Civil Rights” by the press. Despite the breakthrough in Brown, the late 1950s and early 1960s were a difficult period for Marshall. The southern states re…
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Marshall and Mboya
This chapter details the events leading up to Thurgood Marshall's adventure in Kenya. Marshall was a civil rights legend in America when he began his African journey. It became one of the great adventures of his life. He followed a path well worn by others, but his journey would be different. He would not travel by riverboat into the Congo, as had American missionaries, or sail along the West African coast as did the poet Langston Hughes. Marshal…
Discriminating Friends
This chapter details events following Marshall's arrival in Kenya in 1963. It had been three years since Marshall had last been to the country. In early 1960, independence had been a demand. Now it was an inevitability, with ceremonies scheduled for December. Jomo Kenyatta, still in detention in 1960, his influence feared by the British and Americans, had instead emerged as a moderating voice after his release in 1961. He had carried the Kenya Af…
"How 9/11 Made "History
In classrooms across the country on September 11, 2001, lesson plans were abruptly abandoned. Students and teachers gathered around televisions, sharing the sense that “history” was being made before their eyes. Patricia Latessa, a Cincinnati high school teacher, turned on the cafeteria television “and watched history unfold.” She reflected as she watched about how the scenes of airplanes flying into buildings would impact her students (Figure 1)…
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
In Representing the Race Kenneth W. Mack argues that a dominant narrative of African American lawyers as representatives of a minority seeking integration misses the mediating role lawyers played as they were “caught between the needs and desires of the larger, white-dominated culture, and those of their own racial group” (p. 4). As black lawyers acted as advocates for individual clients, they were also representatives of their race when they app…
Patrick Hagopian. American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law
The U.S. has the world’s most powerful military force, with installations around the world. The country also promotes the development of global legal norms and institutions and has criticized foreign leaders for abuses of human rights. The question of whether the rule of law applies to America’s own military is at the heart of Patrick Hagopian’s searing study American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law. The book is a thoroug…
“You didn’t see him lying … beside the gravel road in France”: Death, Distance, and American War Politics
The Outcome of Influence: Hitler’s American Model and Transnational Legal History
Review of James Q. Whitman's Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
The Numbers: Encountering Casualties in the Era of Covid-19
The Numbers: Encountering Casualties in the Era of Covid-19 It was hard to shake off the dread in the summer of 2020 as Covid-19 ravaged the United States. My husband and I focused on keeping family members safe, which was something that, at the time, seemed manageable. Widening the gaze to the country and the world left me drowning in tragedy. Then one morning a story in my Twitter feed stopped me in my tracks. Someone I had never heard of had d…
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