White by law : the legal construction of race
Ian Haney-López (Author)
"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."-- ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 11, 2021
eBook,English, 2006
Revised and updated 10th anniversary editionView all formats and editions
New York University Press, New York, 2006
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
1 online resource (xxii, 263 pages)
9780814737279, 9780814753415, 9780814736944, 9780814736982, 0814737277, 0814753418, 0814736947, 081473698X
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White lines
Racial restrictions in the law of citizenship
The prerequisite cases
Ozawa and Thind
The legal construction of race
White race-consciousness
The value to whites of whiteness
Colorblind white dominance
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