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Mutua on Dudziak on Marshall in Africa

By Lawrence Solum

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Makau W. Mutua (University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY) has posted (Book Review) Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall?s African Journey by Mary L. Dudziak (Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 31, pp. 1146-1155, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This review of Mary Dudziak?s hugely important book contends that the author conflates the struggle for civil in the United States with the struggle for black majority rule in Kenya. While the two struggles are linked by white domination and the quest for blacks to free themselves from that domination, the book fails to interrogate and contextualize the limitations of equal protection norms for minorities in two vastly different political milieus. Dudziak does not problematize Thurgood Marshall?s blind insistence that the independence Kenyan constitution accord the economically dominant and oppressive white minority in colonial Kenya the same equal protections that he sought for marginalized blacks in the United States. While the latter would enhance the likelihood of racial equality in the United States, the former would freeze white privilege in Kenya and doom any real chance at social transformation.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).