White by law : the legal construction of race

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Label

White by law : the legal construction of race

Title remainder

the legal construction of race

Statement of responsibility

Ian Haney López

Creator

• Haney-López, Ian

Subject

• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
• trueRace discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
• United States
• Whites -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Critical America

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

342.7308/73

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Critical America