{"id":16507,"date":"2011-09-25T20:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16507"},"modified":"2016-06-09T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:08:24","slug":"the-common-sense-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16507","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Common Sense&#8221; of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lawweb.usc.edu\/why\/students\/orgs\/lawreview\/N.GotandaTheCommonSenseofRace.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Common Sense&#8221; of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lawweb.usc.edu\/why\/students\/orgs\/lawreview\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Law Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lawweb.usc.edu\/why\/students\/orgs\/lawreview\/Volume83Number3.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 83, Number 3<\/a> (March 2010)<br \/>\npages 441-452<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsulaw.edu\/faculty\/full-time-faculty\/Default.aspx?id=13738\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gotanda<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Western State University College of Law, Fullerton California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2682\" target=\"_blank\">What Blood Won&#8217;t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arielagross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ariela J. Gross<\/a> provides a compelling and nuanced account of race in America. Through her examination of &#8220;racial trials&#8221;\u2014litigation in which racial identification plays a crucial role\u2014Gross ties together the personal, social, and political dimensions of racial identity and classification. This discussion provides an important new perspective on the study of race in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier studies of racial classification have focused on the meanings of statutory racial categories. Gross, however, centers her analysis on the formation and reaffirmation of racial categories as a primarily social process. Gross draws from numerous racial trials\u2014spanning slavery in the antebellum South to modern-day Mexican Americans grappling with &#8220;whiteness&#8221;\u2014in order to survey the origins and history of &#8220;black&#8221; and &#8220;white&#8221; as categories in American life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"http:\/\/lawweb.usc.edu\/assets\/docs\/contribute\/83_3GotandaforWebsite.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Common Sense&#8221; of Race Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 441-452 Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law Western State University College of Law, Fullerton California In What Blood Won&#8217;t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Ariela J. Gross provides a compelling and nuanced account of race in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,1467,8,20],"tags":[880,873,7635,3213],"class_list":["post-16507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ariela-gross","tag-ariela-j-gross","tag-neil-gotanda","tag-southern-california-law-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47479,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16507\/revisions\/47479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}