Prologue Part One: Litigating Mexican Identity 1. The Chicano Movement Cases 2. Proving Mexicans Exist 3. The Mexican Race in East L.A. Part Two: Common Sense and Legal Violence 4. Judges and Intentional Racism 5. Race and Racism as Common Sense 6. Law Enforcement and Legal Violence Part Three: The Chicano Race 7. The Chicano Movement and the East L.A. Thirteen 8. From Young Citizens to Brown Berets 9. Inventing Chicanos Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
No one has better explained how court practices, educational inequities, and police behavior ignited a 'brown power' movement that took its grievances to the courts as well as to the streets. A must read for those interested in the racial place of Hispanics in a black and white nation. -- Neil Foley, University of Texas Locating his argument in distinctly American ideas about racial identity, looks closely at pivotal events in the development of Chicano racial consciousness and illuminates the subversive role that common sense plays in racism and racial prejudice. This book is essential reading for people looking for a way out of the black-white conception of race that has dominated social discourse, without resorting to colorblindness. -- Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, authors of The Miner's Canary Racism on Trial is an absolutely dazzling piece of legal scholarship that chronicles the rise of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles and explains the Mexicans' transformation into a brown race from one that had long asserted its whiteness. Haney Lopez deftly seeks the movement's roots in poverty, urban violence, segregation, and educational neglect, elaborating a robust theory of a common sense racism that greatly illuminates our understanding of discrimination. -- Ramon A. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego An astonishingly lucid and significant contribution to current discussions of race, Racism on Trial underscores our common reliance on everyday racial ideas that remain unquestioned. This fine book could well blast through the racial impasse which our country faces and lead, in the end, to real transformation and equality. -- Gregory J. Boyle, S.J., Executive Director, Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles Haney Lopez invites us to confront our hauntingly evocative past and the pernicious nature of common sense racism in our legal institutions. He underscores just how much racial prejudice still greets Mexicans and Chicanos across the United States, and how it must be met by renewed efforts to gain fully equal citizenship. -- Gerald P. Lopez, New York University Law School In Racism on Trial, Ian Haney Lopez dissects two prominent legal cases handled by controversial lawyer-activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in the late 1960s--the trials of the East LA Thirteen and the Biltmore Six--in order to reconstruct and interpret the Chicano Movement period in Los Angeles. The result is a provocative and engaging mix of legal analysis, civil rights history, and the sociology of legal violence and racial identities. This is essential reading for those interested in Anglo-Mexican relations in California and the Southwest. -- David Montejano, University of California, Berkeley
Ian F. Haney López is John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race.
Racism on Trial is a fascinating and thought-provoking study that
adds much to our understanding of the Chicano movement and points
to the centrality of race in America. By arguing that racism is
common sense, Haney López provides a useful model that can be
applied to American history as a whole and in so doing redirect our
notions of the construction of race and racism in the United
States… [A] fine book that will have a profound influence on the
study of legal, ethnic, and American history for years to come.
*American Journal of Legal History*
At the heart of this book is a compelling examination of the ways
in which their treatment by the police and the courts persuaded
Chicanos to abandon the claim to be white and to fashion their own
racial identity.
*History*
Haney López’s evidentiary presentation is the highlight of the
book. Unlike many social scientists, he realizes he has the burden
of proof… Ian F. Haney López’s work contributes significantly to
the understanding of the period.
*Journal of American History*
Haney López transcends the history and politics of the Chicano
movement and exposes the underlying ‘common sense racism’ on which
he blames the extraordinary rate of exclusion of Latinos from grand
jury service in L.A.… Racism on Trial bridges the issues of race
relations, protest movements, and the law with conviction and
clarity.
*Multicultural Review*
No one has better explained how court practices, educational
inequities, and police behavior ignited a ‘brown power’ movement
that took its grievances to the courts as well as to the streets. A
must-read for those interested in the racial place of Hispanics in
a black and white nation.
*Neil Foley, University of Texas*
An astonishingly lucid and significant contribution to current
discussions of race, Racism on Trial underscores our common
reliance on everyday racial ideas that remain unquestioned. This
fine book could well blast through the racial impasse which our
country faces and lead, in the end, to real transformation and
equality.
*Gregory J. Boyle, S.J., Executive Director, Homeboy Industries,
Los Angeles*
Locating his argument in distinctly American ideas about racial
identity, [Haney López] looks closely at pivotal events in the
development of Chicano racial consciousness and illuminates the
subversive role that common sense plays in racism and racial
prejudice. This book is essential reading for people looking for a
way out of the black–white conception of race that has dominated
social discourse, without resorting to colorblindness.
*Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, authors of The Miner’s
Canary*
Racism on Trial is an absolutely dazzling piece of legal
scholarship that chronicles the rise of the Chicano movement in Los
Angeles and explains the Mexicans’ transformation into a brown race
from one that had long asserted its whiteness. Haney López deftly
seeks the movement’s roots in poverty, urban violence, segregation,
and educational neglect, elaborating a robust theory of a common
sense racism that greatly illuminates our understanding of
discrimination.
*Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of California, San Diego*
Haney López invites us to confront our hauntingly evocative past
and the pernicious nature of common sense racism in our legal
institutions. He underscores just how much racial prejudice still
greets Mexicans and Chicanos across the United States, and how it
must be met by renewed efforts to gain fully equal citizenship.
*Gerald P. López, New York University Law School*
In Racism on Trial, Ian Haney López dissects two prominent legal
cases handled by controversial lawyer-activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in
the late 1960s—the trials of the East LA Thirteen and the Biltmore
Six—in order to reconstruct and interpret the Chicano Movement
period in Los Angeles. The result is a provocative and engaging mix
of legal analysis, civil rights history, and the sociology of legal
violence and racial identities. This is essential reading for those
interested in Anglo–Mexican relations in California and the
Southwest.
*David Montejano, University of California, Berkeley*
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