Written by Edward Rhymes PhD, Managing Editor
Book Chapters and Highlights
OVERVIEW OF COLONIAL LAWS
(Chapter Highlights: The gradual racialization of slavery; Comparing & contrasting American oppression of African & Native Americans; English framework for colonization)
THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
(Chapter Highlights: Native-American Societies; Native-American Wars & Conflicts; The Trail of Tears & Native-American relocation)
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850
(Chapter Highlights: Preceding laws and political manipulation; Animus and antagonism between North & South; Slave Narratives)
THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1882
(Chapter Highlights: Unchecked legislative aggression against the Chinese before the Chinese Exclusion Act; Pivotal Events that cemented anti-Chinese sentiment; Ghosts of Angel Island)
PLESSY V. FERGUSON
(Chapter Highlights: The duplicity of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court; The dynamics of Jim Crow etiquette; Red Summer & The KKK)
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 (Japanese Internment)
(Chapter Highlight: Disparate responses of Mainland U.S. & Hawaii; Diversity of reactions of Japanese Americans to Executive Order 9066; Points of law)
OVERVIEW OF EUGENICS (FORCED STERILIZATION) LAWS
(Chapter Highlights: U.S. creates framework for international sterilization laws and programs; U.S.-Nazi Germany connection; Voices of opposition)