Description
Product ID: | 9780814736944 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Critical America |
Title: | White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition |
Subtitle: | The Legal Construction of Race |
Authors: | Author: Ian Haney Lopez |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Social discrimination and social justice, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic studies, Citizenship and nationality law, Ethnic studies, Citizenship & nationality law, USA |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Traces 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 more. 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. |
Imprint Name: | New York University Press |
Publisher Name: | New York University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2006-10-01 |