White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition : The Legal Construction of Race / Ian Haney Lopez.
2006
KF4755 .H36 2006
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Title
White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition : The Legal Construction of Race / Ian Haney Lopez.
Author
Lopez, Ian Haney, author.
ISBN
9780814753415
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814753415.001.0001 doi
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KF4755 .H36 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.7308/73 342.730873
Summary
White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in the intersection of race and law in American society. Today, it is used and cited widely by not only legal scholars but many others interested in race, ethnicity, culture, politics, gender, and similar socially fabricated facets of American society.In the first edition of White by Law, Haney López traced the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opinion, and, most importantly, popular opinion.Ten years later, Haney López revisits the legal construction of race, and argues that current race law has spawned a troubling racial ideology that perpetuates inequality under a new guise: colorblind white dominance. In a new, original essay written specifically for the 10th anniversary edition, he explores this racial paradigm and explains how it contributes to a system of white racial privilege socially and legally defended by restrictive definitions of what counts as race and as racism, and what doesn't, in the eyes of the law. The book also includes a new preface, in which Haney Lopez considers how his own personal experiences with white racial privilege helped engender White by Law.
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Critical America ; ; 16
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition
Acknowledgments
A Note on Whiteness
1. White Lines
2. Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship
3. The Prerequisite Cases
4. Ozawa and Thind
5. The Legal Construction of Race
6. White Race-Consciousness
7. The Value to Whites of Whiteness
8. Colorblind White Dominance
Appendix A. The Racial Prerequisite Cases
Appendix B. Excerpts from Selected Prerequisite Cases
Notes
Bibliography
Table of Legal Authorities
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition
Acknowledgments
A Note on Whiteness
1. White Lines
2. Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship
3. The Prerequisite Cases
4. Ozawa and Thind
5. The Legal Construction of Race
6. White Race-Consciousness
7. The Value to Whites of Whiteness
8. Colorblind White Dominance
Appendix A. The Racial Prerequisite Cases
Appendix B. Excerpts from Selected Prerequisite Cases
Notes
Bibliography
Table of Legal Authorities
Index
About the Author