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Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice 8.2.2004 Edition

by Ian F. Haney López (Author)
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Belknap Press; 8.2.2004 edition (September 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674016297
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674016293
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsRequired reading if interested in la raza's history
By Vato-Curandero on April 22, 2005
Format: Hardcover
I love this book. Haney Lopez gives us an intriguing description of the history of Mexican-descent peoples in the United States since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with a focus on the rise of Chicano identity and the Chicano movement in Los Angeles during the tumultuous 1960s. What sticks with me most about this book is the rupture and transformation in identity politics. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, mainstream Mexican-American organizations advocated a hard assimilationist line, lobbying larger (white) American society to accept Mexican-Americans as part of the Anglo-Saxon cultural core. At the time, such organizations were staffed by and represented the relatively small Mexican-American middle class (which consisted largely of lighter-skinned individuals who were capable of "passing" as white). As part of this strategy to accomodate White America, Mexican-American leaders at the time (again, mainly middle class and mainly light skinned) declared that Mexicans were essentially "white" and thus emphasized Spanish/European heritage of Mexico over its indigenous and to a lesser extent, African, roots. Such persons often looked down on poor, dark, or indigenous persons of Mexican descent in efforts to distance themselves from their "undesirable" co-ethnics. From 1930-1960, the U.S. Census officially classified Mexican-Americans as "white," unless such individuals were visibly "Indian" or "Black."

The efforts of appeasement and accomodation on the part of the lobbyists did not result in the elimination of individual and insitutional discrimination against Mexicans, however. As a result, a new movement arose in the 1960s that thoroughly rejected the older generation's assimilation/accomodation agenda.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA powerful rethinking of race and racism
By A Customer on April 28, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Racism on Trial offers a powerful rethinking of race and racism.
The author looks at how Mexican Americans went from thinking of themselves as white in the 1930s to the 1960s (who knew?), to brown in the context of the Chicano movement (a self-conception that seems alive and well today). This rapid change provides Lopez with an opportunity to further develop the idea that race really comes down to ideas and practices, rather than biological differences. Of course, it's also true that race is not something the Mexican American community had full control over, as they were responding to a legacy of colonialism and conquest that treated them as if they were non-white.
To get at this legacy, the author looks at the way the police and the courts mistreated Mexican Americans, and offers a theory of what he calls "common sense racism." This theory really helps explain how racism is tied into to taken-for-granted ideas as well as the way our world has been structured by centuries of racism. Lopez may overclaim when he says most racism is now of the common sense variety, but he certainly contributes an important way of thinking about how racism continues even when there is no individual racist.
On the whole, this is a great book. It tells an amazing story about Chicano activism. It gives a concise history about how Mexicans have been treated as a race in this country, and about how they have responded. And it offers a sophisticated way of thinking about how race operates as social knowledge, both in the hands of racists and those opposed to racism. I would definitely recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHa-Lo scores another success!
By BoaltGeek on February 17, 2005
Format: Hardcover
An academic text that's also page turner, Racism on Trial is an excellent companion to "White By Law" ... but it has it's own appeal and original ideas beyond Haney-Lopez's past work. As this becomes a more common text in ethnic/chicano studies classes a constitutional and social discussion delves deeper with Professor Haney Lopez provoking new thought and analysis regarding these uniquely American issues.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAn Interesting Read on an Important Topic
By A Customer on June 24, 2003
Format: Hardcover
This book is readable, something of a rarity for a legal scholar. It analyzes an important piece of Chicano history, the Chicano protests in East Los Angeles in the 1960s. The book offers an important explanation of the radical lawyering strategy of Oscar Acosta, who previously has been depicted as an irrational (if not crazy) child of the 1960s. However, the book suffers some serious deficiencies. First, it ignores class and immigration in the analysis of the historical relationship between Latinos and Anglos in Los Angeles, a city with complexities that the author does not come close to fully portraying in the book. Second, the book seriously overstates the argument that Chicanos "discovered" a racial identity in the 1960s; the racial identity of persons of Mexican ancestry in what is now known as the American Southwest dates at least as far back as the U.S./Mexican War of 1848. Third, the "common sense" theory of racism articulated in the book is hopelessly simplistic and fails to offer an explanation of the racial and class dynamics, and their interaction, at work. Rather, it is more of a post hoc rationalization rather than a "theory" of racism. Overall, the book is fine in describing historical events. However, it is weak when it moves beyond that aim.
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2.0 out of 5 starsOk book
By David Vermette on October 12, 2015
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Forced to read for class, ok book
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