Tag: Ian Haney López

  • New numbers provide a reminder of the fluidity of American identity.

  • 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…

  • “I Thought He was White You Know a Regular American”: The Boston Marathon Bombing Shows Us How White Privilege Hurts White People… Again We Are Respectable Negroes 2013-04-19 Chauncey DeVega Race is a social construction. There is only one race, the human race. But, race has historically been something negotiated by the courts, has legal…

  • “White Latino” Leaders: A Foregone Conclusion or Mischaracterization of Latino Society The Modern American Volume 3, Issue 2 (Summer-Fall, 2007) Article 11 pages 62-65 Eric M. Gutierrez Am I white? My personal inquiry into race begins with a school picture of a six-year-old boy. My dark brown hair, parted to one side, falls impishly over…

  • White Latinos Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2003) 8 pages Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Who are the leaders in Latino communities? This question does not admit simple answers, for who counts as a leader and what Latino identity entails are both contentious…

  • Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 29 (1993) 62 pages Ian F. Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law and Executive Committee Member for The Center for Social Justice Berkeley Law School University of California, Berkeley Under the jurisprudence…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…