Ebook {Epub PDF} White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race by Ian F. Haney-López

White by Law The Legal Construction of Race RevisedandUpdated! 10th!Anniversary!Edition!!!! Ian Haney Lόpez NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London ()!! 1│White Lines In its first words on the subject of citizenship, Congress in restricted naturalization. As recent events have reminded us, race is far from extinct as a concept or a social organizer of American life. Ian Haney López's prescient book from the 90s examines the legal construction of 'whiteness' and the centrality of this category to the creation and maintenance of /5. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race Volume 21 of Critical America, ISSN X: Authors: Ian Haney Lopez, Ian Haney-L©đpez: Publisher: NYU Press, ISBN: , Bibliography:

Ian Haney Lopez. NYU Press, - Seiten. 0 Rezensionen. "Whiteness pays. As White by Law shows, immigrants recognized the value of whiteness and sometimes petitioned the courts to be recognized as white. Haney Lspez argues for the centrality of law in constructing race."--Voice Literary Supplement"White by Law's thoughtful analysis. Download Citation | On Jan 1, , Ian F. Haney-López published White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate. Ian Haney López teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. One of the nation's leading thinkers on how racism has evolved since the civil rights era, his current research emphasizes the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States.

questions, offering a general theory of the legal construction of race and exploring contemporary White identity. I conclude that Whiteness exists at the vortex of race in the U.S. law and society, and that Whites should renounce their racial identity as it is currently constituted in the interests of social justice. He gained early renown for White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. The book explores judicial efforts to interpret the legal requirement, utilized until , that one be a "white person" in order to gain naturalized citizenship. Ian Haney Lopez. NYU Press, - Law - pages. 0 Reviews. "Whiteness pays. As White by Law shows, immigrants recognized the value of whiteness and sometimes petitioned the courts to be.