Author John P. Jackson's book, "Science for Segregation: Race, Law and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education ," analyzes the scientific basis of the pro- and anti-Brown factions and frames provocative questions about the role of science, particularly social science, in law. The book discusses a group of scientists who attempted to overturn the landmark Brown in 1963 based on the idea that "separate but equal" was a law of nature.
March 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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“Science for Segregation: Race, Law and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education“
John P. Jackson Jr.
(NYU Press, $45)
In 1963 a group of scientists intervening in Stell v. Savannah threatened to upend the 1954 landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education using Brown’s own weapons of biological and social science. The scientists argued that integration was damaging to children of all races, and that “separate but equal” was a law of nature.
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