Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

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Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land - not with weapons, but with legal arguments. This work tells the story of Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the 1960s.

Mary L. Dudziak is professor of law, history, and political science at the University of Southern California. Her books include "Cold War Civil Rights", "September 11 in History", and "Legal Borderlands".

"[A] work for the ages. Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams creatively juxtaposes the African American struggle for equality in law with the Kenyan struggle for political independence from white British colonial rule... Dudziak casts Marshall as a bridge between two epochal quests for human dignity, drawing painful parallels."--Makau Mutua, Human Rights Quarterly "[A] thought provoking and painstakingly researched journey through a crucial transformational moment in two nations' histories... [W]e are invited to reflect on the potentials and core limits on liberalism, democracy, and law as paths to transformation and justice."--Julie Novkov, Law and Politics Book Review