White By Law 10Th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction Of Race

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.

• | By (Author): Ian Haney Lopez
• | Publisher: New York University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2006
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0814736947
• | ISBN-13: 9780814736944