Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System by Starkey, Brando Simeo
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System by Starkey, Brando Simeo

Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System

A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and...
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Author: Brando Simeo Starkey
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Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System by Starkey, Brando Simeo

Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System

$90.60
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System by Starkey, Brando Simeo

Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System

$90.60
Author: Brando Simeo Starkey
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America

Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court--even more than the presidency or Congress--aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution's Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

The Reconstruction Amendments--which sought to abolish slavery, establish equal protection under the law, and protect voting rights--converted the Constitution into a potent anti-caste document. But in the years since, the Supreme Court has refused to allow the amendments to fulfill that promise. Time and again, when petitioned to make the nation's founding conceit--that all men are created equal--real for Black Americans, the nine black robes have chosen white supremacy over racial fairness.

Their Accomplices Wore Robes brings to life dozens of cases and their rich casts of characters--petitioners, attorneys, justices--to explain how America arrived at this point and how society might arrive somewhere better, even as today's federal courts lurch rightward. In this groundbreaking grand history, Brando Simeo Starkey reveals a troubling and dark aspect of American history.

Author: Brando Simeo Starkey
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 06/03/2025
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385547383


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2025 pg. 10

About the Author
BRANDO SIMEO STARKEY is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN's The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He will launch a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com, in January 2025.
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