American cultural pluralism and law
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American cultural pluralism and law
Praeger, 1996
2nd ed
- : hc
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [289]-295
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new and updated edition of Norgren and Nanda's classic text brings their examination of American cultural pluralism and the law up to date through the Clinton administration. While maintaining their emphasis on the concept of cultural diversity as it relates to the law in the United States, new and updated chapters reflect recent relevant court cases bearing on culture, race, gender, and class, with particular attention paid to local and state court opinions. Drawing on court materials, statutes and codes, and legal ethnographies, the text analyzes the ongoing negotiations and accommodations via the mechanism of law between culturally different groups and the larger society. An important text for courses in American government, society and the law, cultural studies, and civil rights.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - E Pluribus Unum?
- Race
- Native Americans, Law and Land
- Trouble in Paradise - Native Hawaiians
- Segregation, Equality and African Americans
- 100 Per Cent American - Who Qualifies in a National Emergency? - Japanese Americans and the Law
- Religion
- The Mormons
- Religion and Schools - The Amish
- Religion and Schools - The Satmar Hasidim
- Religious Practice and Drug Use - The Rastafari and the Native American Church
- Gender
- Gays and the Law - Status and Conduct
- Women's Nature, Women's Lives, Women's Rights
- Community
- Language, Law and Latinos
- Folks Like Us, Lives Like Ours - The Homeless
- Courts and Culture.
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