{"product_id":"legacy-and-legitimacy-black-americans-and-the-supreme-court-9781592139033","title":"Legacy and Legitimacy: Black Americans and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first comprehensive examination of Black Americans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[T]his book should be of interest to scholars and students of the Court, public opinion, and American politics more broadly. Clawson and Waltenburg present a well researched book for scholars and students who wish to know about interactions between the Court and African Americans, the effect of decisions on public opinion, and understand the dynamics of diffuse support for the Court.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The Journal of Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the book's many strengths is its multidimensional approach to answering this core question: Why do African-Americans view the Court, and thus the U.S. regime, as legitimate? The authors provide a cogent, compact summary of Civil Rights history and how blacks' innovative public-interest-law strategy brought litigation to the federal courts.... [The] book's experimental, archival and survey data provides a more nuanced portrait of black attitudes toward the Supreme Court.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Perspectives on Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e1. Legitimacy and American Democracy \u003cbr\u003e2. Blacks, Civil Rights, and the Supreme Court \u003cbr\u003e3. Establishing the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity \u003cbr\u003e4. Different Presses, Different Frames: Black and Mainstream Press Coverage of a Supreme Court Decision \u003cbr\u003e5. Media Framing and the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity \u003cbr\u003e6. The Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity among African Americans: Support for Capital Punsihment and Affirmative Action \u003cbr\u003e7. The Casual Relationship between Public Opinion toward the Court and Its Policies: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases \u003cbr\u003e8. Conclusion \u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: Stimulus for Legitimacy Experiment \u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: List of Black Newspapers \u003cbr\u003eAppendix C: Stimulus for Media Framing Experiment \u003cbr\u003eAppendix D: Question Wording for Media Framing Experiment \u003cbr\u003eAppendix E: Blacks and the U.S. Supreme Court Survey \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eReference \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041557414231,"sku":"9781592139033","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781592139033.jpg?v=1750950770","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/legacy-and-legitimacy-black-americans-and-the-supreme-court-9781592139033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}