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1 online resource (xxii, 373 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Hispanic civil rights series
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Hispanic civil rights series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hernandez v. Texas / Michael A. Olivas -- Off-white in an age of white supremacy : Mexican elites and the rights of Indians and blacks in nineteenth-century New Mexico / Laura E. Gomez -- Race and colorblindness after Hernandez and Brown / Ian Haney Lopez -- Hernandez v. Texas : legacies of justice and injustice / Kevin R. Johnson -- Mi profundo azul : why Latinos have a right to sing the blues / Juan Francisco Perea -- Over the rainbow : Hernandez v. Texas, Brown v. the Board of Education, and Black v. Brown / Neil Foley -- Some are born white, some achieve whiteness, and some have whiteness thrust upon them : Mexican Americans and the politics of racial classification in the federal judiciary bureaucracy, twenty-five years after Hernandez v. Texas / Steven Harmon Wilson -- Peremptory challenges : lessons from Hernandez v. Texas / Clare Sheridan -- The non-discrimination ideal of Hernandez v. Texas confronts a "culture" of discrimination : the amazing story of Miller-El v. Texas / Sandra Guerra Thompson -- Hernandez at fifty, a personal history / James de Anda -- Hernandez v. Texas : a litigation history / Michael A. Olivas. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays, published as part of the Hispanic Civil Rights Series, sheds light on an important civil rights case that has been overshadowed by the more compelling case, Brown v. Board of Education. It details the first case tried by Mexican Americans before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hernández, Pete -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Hernández, Pete. |
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Hernandez, Pete -- Trials, litigation, etc. |
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Jackson County (Tex.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Trials (Murder) -- Texas -- Jackson County.
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Trials (Murder) |
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Texas -- Jackson County. |
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Race discrimination -- Texas -- Jackson County.
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Race discrimination. |
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Jury selection -- United States.
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Jury selection. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Olivas, Michael A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Olivas, Michael A. (ed.). "Colored men" and "hombres aquí" : Hernández v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican-American lawyering. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, ©2006 9781558854765 (OCoLC)64592184 |
| ISBN |
9781611920383 (electronic book) |
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1611920388 (electronic book) |
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9781611926453 |
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1611926459 |
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1558854762 (alkaline paper) |
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9781558854765 (alkaline paper) |
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