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Cultural Racism and the Construction of Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2011

Extract

Ariela Gross offers a thorough summary of points made in the two articles in this Forum, and integrates the articles well. As she notes, taken together, they provide an examination of the “other white” litigation strategy employed by Mexican American civil rights lawyers.

Type
Forum: Response
Copyright
Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2003

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References

1. See Gross, Ariela J., “Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness,” Law and History Review 21 (2003): 195205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Sheridan, Clare, “Contested Citizenship: National Identity and the Mexican Immigration Debates of the 1920s,” Journal of American Ethnic History 21.3 (Spring 2002): 335.Google Scholar

3. See Balibar, Etienne and Wallerstein, Immanuel, eds., Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (New York: Verso, 1991).Google Scholar

4. Flores, William and Benmayor, Rina, eds., Latino Cultural Citizenship (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).Google Scholar