White by law 10th anniversary edition: the legal construction of race
Auteur :
Lopez, Ian Haney
Éditeur :
New York University Press
ISBN :
9780814736944
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2006
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
476 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.