| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 373 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hernández, Pete -- Trials, litigation, etc
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| SUBJECT |
Hernández, Pete fast |
| Subject |
Trials (Murder) -- Texas -- Jackson County
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Race discrimination -- Texas -- Jackson County
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Jury selection -- United States
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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Jury selection
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Race discrimination
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Trials (Murder)
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| SUBJECT |
Jackson County (Tex.) -- Trials, litigation, etc
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| Subject |
Texas -- Jackson County
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olivas, Michael A
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| ISBN |
9781611920383 |
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1611920388 |
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9781611926453 |
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1611926459 |
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