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Book SynopsisNot long after he led the legal team in Brown v Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land - not with weapons, but with legal arguments. This work tells the story of Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the 1960s.
Trade Review"[A] work for the ages. Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams creatively juxtaposes the African American struggle for equality in law with the Kenyan struggle for political independence from white British colonial rule... Dudziak casts Marshall as a bridge between two epochal quests for human dignity, drawing painful parallels."--Makau Mutua, Human Rights Quarterly "[A] thought provoking and painstakingly researched journey through a crucial transformational moment in two nations' histories... [W]e are invited to reflect on the potentials and core limits on liberalism, democracy, and law as paths to transformation and justice."--Julie Novkov, Law and Politics Book Review
Table of ContentsMap of Kenya ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Marshall and Mboya 11 Chapter 2: A Tricky Constitution 37 Chapter 3: Writing Rights 65 Chapter 4: Discriminating Friends 97 Chapter 5: Anarchy Is Anarchy 131 Epilogue 161 Appendix: Thurgood Marshall's Draft Bill of Rights for Kenya, 1960 173 Notes 185 Acknowledgments 235 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 241 Index 247
