| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Ariel Campos, Sr. |
Diversity in the Legal Profession: Hispanic Perspective |
56 Louisiana Bar Journal 436 (April/May, 2009) |
Defining diversity in the legal profession in Louisiana through a Hispanic perspective must begin at the beginning. Hispanic comes from Hispania, an ancient name for the Iberia Peninsula. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition, 2000) defines Hispanic as . of or pertaining to Spain and its language, people and... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Tracy Carbasho |
Hispanic Attorneys Committee Celebrates Hispanic Heritage |
11 No. 21 Lawyers Journal 8 (October 9, 2009) |
The ACBA's Hispanic Attorneys Committee remained true to its mission of brightening the community by holding its annual heritage celebration in September. This marks the fourth consecutive year the Committee has organized the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration and plans call for the group to continue holding the event on an annual basis. The... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Lisa R. Pruitt |
Latina/os, Locality, and Law in the Rural South |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 135 (Spring 2009) |
Legal issues associated with immigration are playing out at multiple scales, from the local to the national. In this era of municipal anti-immigrant ordinances and federal-local cooperation to enforce immigration laws, legal actors at the municipal, county, and state levels have become frontline policymakers and law enforcers in relation to... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Tomás Joaquín Rodríguez |
Latino Youth Vs. United States Deportation Laws: a Cultural Consideration |
12 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 439 (Winter 2009) |
Estela is a young, promising, and dedicated seventeen-year-old woman who is about to graduate from high school. Born in Mexico, she is the only Latina in her graduating class of sixty people from a small school in rural Iowa. Estela is graduating at the top of her class, is one of the most popular people in school, and plans to attend Stanford... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Keith Aoki , Kevin R. Johnson |
Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials: the Need for Focus in Critical Analysis |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 73 (Spring 2009) |
Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials represents an important contribution to the scholarship on Latina/o civil rights. A crisp read, the casebook nicely builds on the excellent reader, The Latino/a Condition, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, published a decade previously. The volume effectively pulls together basic materials... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Cristina M. Rodríguez |
Latinos: Discrete and Insular No More |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 41 (Spring 2009) |
Ordinarily, court cases that address the Latino experience in the United States are presented as addenda to larger narratives--as casebook squibs. Hernandez v. Texas, which explores the status of Mexican Americans as a protected class, sits in the considerable shadow of Brown v. Board of Education, decided two weeks later. Discrimination based on... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Leticia M. Saucedo |
National Origin, Immigrants, and the Workplace: the Employment Cases in Latinos and the Law and the Advocates' Perspective |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 53 (Spring 2009) |
In defining national origin in workplace cases, courts have created distinctions between Latino workers who have immigration status or citizenship and those who do not. This doctrinal distinction does not reflect any actual social status differences based on immigration status among Latinos who live in the United States. Yet it has served to create... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Francisco Valdes |
Rebellious Knowledge Production, Academic Activism, & Outsider Democracy: from Principles to Practices in Latcrit Theory, 1995 to 2008 |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 131 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
This annual lecture, as the program schedule indicates, is designed to provide a sense of some notable principles and practices that underlie and animate LatCrit theory, praxis, and community as an expression of critical outsider jurisprudence, or OutCrit legal studies. Because the LatCrit community and body of work are multiply diverse,... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Christina Iturralde |
Rhetoric and Violence: Understanding Incidents of Hate Against Latinos |
12 New York City Law Review 417 (Summer 2009) |
Sadly, the issue of violence against Latinos is not new. Yet it is an issue that has been documented both in news articles and national reports with increasing frequency over the past few years. For example, a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center offers a representative sampling of some of the more egregious examples of physical and... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Cliff Collins |
Román Hernández Rises to Lead Hispanic National Bar Association |
70-NOV Oregon State Bar Bulletin 34 (November, 2009) |
The ascendance of Roman D. Hernández reads like a modern-day Horatio Alger tale, only better. His is a fascinating story, says Mark A. Long, managing partner of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt. He has really, truly lived the American dream in a way that is worthy of a novel. Hernández, a shareholder with the firm, became president of the Hispanic... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Juan Carlos Linares |
Si Se Puede? Chicago Latinos Speak on Law, the Law School Experience and the Need for an Increased Latino Bar |
2 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 321 (Spring 2009) |
When I arrived home that night, I found my mother sobbing uncontrollably on the floor. She collected herself enough to tell me that they had taken Augie, my younger brother, away in handcuffs; that he was a suspect in a murder. I was a freshman in college at the time. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know whom to turn to. We were powerless in... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Jose Macias |
The Chicana/o-latina/o Law Review: the Plight of the Identity Journal |
28 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 57 (2009) |
Oliver Wendell Holmes described a word as the skin of a living thought. If this is so, there is grave responsibility upon those who thrust words into the living stream of our society. We must be guided not by bitterness, but by courage and compassion, for as living things words may prove loyal to their purpose. We, the Chicano Law Students at... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Jenny Rivera |
The Continuum of Violence Against Latinas and Latinos |
12 New York City Law Review 399 (Summer 2009) |
Violence against Latinas and Latinos based on national origin, ethnicity, race, sex, and sexual orientation is a historical reality and part of the fabric of United States society and culture. Violence has been visited upon the Latino community by both private individuals and public officials, through individual acts of violence and through... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Richard Delgado |
The Law of the Noose: a History of Latino Lynching |
44 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 297 (Summer 2009) |
What do tangible things mean, and for whom do they hold meaning? In Jena, Louisiana, a noose figured prominently in the controversy over the right to sit in a certain spot on Jena High's campus and the prosecution of six black teenagers that followed. When someone hung a length of rope, doubled back in a familiar shape, on a branch of the tree... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Laura E. Gómez |
What's Race Got to Do with It? Press Coverage of the Latino Electorate in the 2008 Presidential Primary Season |
24 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 425 (Fall 2009) |
The 2008 presidential election was perhaps the most significant in U.S. history for Latinos, who have surpassed African Americans as the nation's largest minority group. By 2050, when non-Latino whites in the U.S. will be less than fifty percent of the nation's population, Latinos are projected to be thirty percent, double the estimated percentage... |
2009 |
Yes |
| James Podgers |
Zack Understands Legal Concerns of Hispanic Community |
95-SEP ABA Journal 66 (September, 2009) |
IT WAS JUST ONE MOMENT IN A HALLWAY OUTSIDE ANOTHER HOTEL meeting room, but it offered a telling glimpse into the impact Stephen N. Zack is likely to have when he takes his turn as ABA president. He was giving an interview to a television crew on a Friday morning during the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The crew was from the Spanish-language... |
2009 |
Yes |
| Melinda Catren and Veronica Arechederra Hall |
A Class Apart: a Mexican American Civil Rights Story - Law on Film |
17-JUL Nevada Lawyer 54 (July, 2009) |
Not considered black, Mexican Americans in the 1950s were not protected by the same civil rights that African Americans were slowly gaining. At the same time, Mexican Americans were certainly not treated as white. They were, quite literally, A Class Apart. The PBS Home Video documentary of that name takes a look at the seminal U.S. Supreme Court... |
2009 |
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| Denise Ferreira da Silva |
An Outline of a Global Political Subject: Reading Evo Morales's Election as a (Post-) Colonial Event |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 25 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
Political theory, in particular, runs a great risk of losing its distinctive value in intellectual life and even its offerings to political life, if it becomes trapped by responding to events, by the time and space of events. It runs the risk of limiting its capacity as a domain of inquiry capable of disrupting the tyranny or the givenness of the... |
2009 |
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| Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic , Juan F. Perea |
Authors' Reply |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 103 (Spring 2009) |
We'd like to thank Michael Olivas for his witty, compassionate, and thoughtful introduction. He captures well the many dimensions, positive and negative, of the casebook-writing enterprise. We are also indebted to Rodolfo Acuña, Gerald López, Cristina Rodríguez, Leticia Saucedo, Keith Aoki, and Kevin Johnson for contributing their thoughts on... |
2009 |
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| Emily Rose Gonzalez |
Battered Immigrant Youth Take the Beat: Special Immigrant Juveniles Permitted to Age-out of Status |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 409 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
When S was only five years old, his father abandoned his family. Soon after, S's mother began to release her anger towards S's father on S, abusing him both physically and emotionally. S's mother would beat S regularly with a cord or rope, leaving his back completely black and blue. Further, S's mother was verbally abusive, frequently insulting S... |
2009 |
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| Christopher Choe |
Bringing in the Unbanked off the Fringe: the Bank on San Francisco Model and the Need for Public and Private Partnership |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 365 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
In 1992, Barbra O'Leary Hatfield Liberace's life changed when her husband died. The loss of her husband caused her monthly income to go from $5,000 to less than $500. Because she could not maintain the required minimum balance, her bank closed her account. She soon began relying on payday loans in order to make her mortgage payments. Soon... |
2009 |
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| Gerald P. López |
Changing Systems, Changing Ourselves |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 15 (Spring 2009) |
To celebrate the publication of Richard Delgado, Juan Perea, and Jean Stefancic's Latinos and the Law, the editors of the Harvard Latino Law Review invited participation in this symposium. They generously encouraged me to write about the rebellious vision--a vision that reflects and shapes a particular approach to lawyering, to working together, to... |
2009 |
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| Tayyab Mahmud |
Cluster Introduction: Space, Subordination, and Political Subjects |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 15 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
A place on the map is also a place in history. Adrienne Rich Master narratives of any era reflect the limit horizons of that era--the hegemonic ontological categories that over time so imprint the imaginary that even critique remains imprisoned in the professed normalcy of those categories. This imprisonment curtails the transformative potential... |
2009 |
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| Christian Halliburton |
Foreword |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
The Thirteenth Annual LatCrit Conference (LatCrit XIII) was held in the shadow of what then promised, and ultimately proved, to be a watershed moment in the social and political history of this country. The 2008 presidential race between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain appeared as a potential fork in the road for the country, if only because... |
2009 |
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| Veronica Reyes |
In Recognition of Pablo Javier Almaguer: Branch Manager & Team Manager, Texas Riogrande Legal Aid |
15 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 1 (Spring 2009) |
Each issue of the Journal features a Latino Texan whose professional achievements, exemplary conduct and contributions to the Latino community are noteworthy. Our purpose is not only to identify Latino role models but also to inspire members of the community to continue the work that these individuals have begun. In this volume, we honor a Latino... |
2009 |
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| Michael A. Olivas |
Introduction |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 1 (Spring 2009) |
Given how hard it is to write casebooks and instructional materials, the real question is: why would someone do it? There are mixed motivations and inspirations for doing so and, as in running for elected office or applying for a law school deanship, they are a contradictory mix of self-abnegating altruism and selfish ambition. Despite the many... |
2009 |
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| Joseph Alvarado |
Keeping Jailers from Keeping the Keys to the Courthouse: the Prison Litigation Reform Act's Exhaustion Requirement and Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 323 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
Prisons, jails, and other detention facilities in the United States are dangerously overcrowded, creating highly stressful environments for inmates and prison staff alike. As tensions run high, so do the occurrences of civil rights violations. In February of 2009, a three-judge panel in California tentatively ordered the release of approximately... |
2009 |
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| Steven W. Bender |
Knocked down Again: an East L.a. Story on the Geography of Color and Colors |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 109 (Spring 2009) |
Hector knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Hector knocked up? Derogatory racial images have long been a mainstay of media productions from cinema to song. Racial and ethnic humor drawing on stereotypical visions of racial groups is a staple of comedy, particularly on television,... |
2009 |
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| Kif Augustine-Adams, Brigham Young University |
Laura E. Gómez, Manifest Destinies: the Making of the Mexican American Race, New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 272. $35.00 Cloth (Isbn 0-8147-3174-1); $21.00 Paper (Isbn 0-8147-3205-4) |
27 Law and History Review 231 (Spring, 2009) |
By titling her book, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, Laura Gómez clearly sets forth the analytic trajectory of her project. Over the course of time, complex institutional and interpersonal interactions-- legal, social, political and economic--in the Mexican territories conquered by the United States in 1848, and most... |
2009 |
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| Sherene H. Razack, University of Toronto |
Manifest Destinies: the Making of the Mexican American Race. By Laura E. Gomez. New York: Nyu Press, 2007. Pp. 256. $41.00 Cloth; $21.00 Paper |
43 Law and Society Review 703 (September, 2009) |
Races are made, not born, and the making of Mexican Americans as a race, tracked so carefully by Gomez in Manifest Destinies, was highly instructive for me as someone engaged in thinking about the making of Muslim as a race in the post-9/11 period. Beginning with an important distinction, that racial group membership is mainly assigned by the... |
2009 |
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| Denise Pacheco, Veronica Nelly Velez, University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies |
Maps, Mapmaking, and Critical Pedagogy: Exploring Gis and Maps as a Teaching Tool for Social Change |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 273 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
I was nervous standing in front of my family, over one hundred community members, and the Pasadena School Board. I checked and double-checked my computer, power point slides, and notes one last time. The GIS maps I had spent months creating were ready to go--but was I? I gazed out into the audience at each one of the parents, students, and... |
2009 |
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| Rodolfo F. Acuña |
On Pedagogy |
12 Harvard Latino Law Review 7 (Spring 2009) |
Most academic fields evolve from mainstream disciplines; they gradually develop paradigms and methodologies that separate them from their mother disciplines. Slowly new disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals and academe. Sociology, anthropology, and the other social sciences are relatively young, having mutated from the... |
2009 |
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| D. Wendy Greene |
On Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship: Laura E. Gómez, Manifest Destinies: the Making of the Mexican American Race--new York University Press, 2007 |
34 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 421 (Spring, 2009) |
In response to a marked increase in immigration from South and Central America and a rapidly changing demography, within the past two decades a number of United States news pundits, politicians, and scholars have manufactured media campaigns linking illegal immigration in the United States to individuals of Mexican descent. This portrayal has... |
2009 |
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| Maria C. Malagon, Lindsay Perez Huber, Veronica N. Velez, University of California, Los Angeles |
Our Experiences, Our Methods: Using Grounded Theory to Inform a Critical Race Theory Methodology |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 253 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
As critical race scholars in the field of education, we created this research note in response to our collective frustration with traditional, qualitative research methods to accurately understand and document the complex experiences of Students of Color, their families, and their communities. We experienced this frustration not only in searching... |
2009 |
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| Jacquelyn Bridgeman , Gracie Lawson-Borders , Margaret Zamudio |
Representative Democracy in Rural America: Race, Gender, and Class Through a Localism Lens |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 81 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
Political history is often made during presidential election cycles. For example, in 1861 President Abraham Lincoln not only became the sixteenth president of the United States, but he was also thrust into a nation-changing social and political maelstrom centered on slavery, secession, and preservation of the Union that would etch him into history.... |
2009 |
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| Andrés L. Carrillo |
The Costs of Success: Mexican American Identity Performance Within Culturally Coded Classrooms and Educational Achievement |
18 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 641 (Fall 2009) |
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men--the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Mexican Americans have fast become the largest segment of students enrolled in California's public education system. From 1981 to 2001, the percentage of Latino students enrolled in public schools... |
2009 |
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| José María Monzón, University of Buenos Aires School of Law |
The End of Republican Governance and the Rise of Imperial Cities |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 51 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
This paper seeks to demonstrate how select cities--henceforth referred to as Imperial Cities--are able, via the accumulation of various kinds of wealth, to construct political and social power that is competitive with that of the state within which these cities are located. The association of this political and social power with affluence results... |
2009 |
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| Lorenzo Bowman, Tonette Rocco, Elizabeth Peterson |
The Exclusion of Race from Mandated Continuing Legal Education Requirements: a Critical Race Theory Analysis |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 229 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
Forty states mandate continuing legal education (CLE) for practicing lawyers in their jurisdictions. Lawyers who fail to meet the mandated CLE requirements of their jurisdictions are often subject to suspension and, ultimately, disbarment. Given the penalty for noncompliance, almost all practicing lawyers in these jurisdictions take CLE... |
2009 |
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| Robert Ashford |
Using Socio-economics and Binary Economics to Serve the Interests of Poor and Working People: What Critical Scholars Can Do to Help |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 173 (Fall/Winter 2009) |
If anyone in legal education doubts whether there are a growing number of law teachers (1) concerned about the well-being of poor and working people in the U.S. and throughout the world, (2) opposed to practices of subordination and other injustices, and (3) eager to do something to improve things, let them attend a LatCrit meeting. LatCrit... |
2009 |
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| Virginia Martinez, Jazmin Garcia, Jasmine Vasquez |
A Community under Siege: the Impact of Anti-immigrant Hysteria on Latinos |
2 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 101 (Fall 2008) |
In April 2006, a 16 year-old Mexican-American boy named David Ritcheson was savagely beaten, sodomized with a patio umbrella pole and burned repeatedly with a cigarette. One of the attackers, a skinhead, attempted to carve a swastika in his chest. This occurred at a party in a private home in a small town in Texas as a result of a disagreement over... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
A Handicapped, Not "Sleeping," Giant: the Devastating Impact of the Initiative Process on Latina/o and Immigrant Communities |
96 California Law Review 1259 (October, 2008) |
Despite being questioned on many grounds, direct democracy remains popular in many states. Calls for reform of the initiative process abound. Consider a few frequently expressed concerns about initiative lawmaking. Some critics contend that direct democracy benefits well-financed interest groups--often derided as special interests--that are able... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Valerie J. Phillips |
A Pluralistic Approach to Oppression and Latino Terra Nullius |
20 Saint Thomas Law Review 691 (Spring 2008) |
We are nations of givers dealing with nations of takers. Anonymous The real battle will be between westernized, assimilated elites within all nations, and those who refuse to assimilate. Hanna Petros I. Introduction. 691 II. Back Alley Abortions. 694 III. Cyber-Love and Getting to Praxis. 700 IV. Everything is up for Discussion . 701 This... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Keith Aoki , Kevin R. Johnson |
An Assessment of Latcrit Theory Ten Years after |
83 Indiana Law Journal 1151 (Fall, 2008) |
With the democratization of legal academia to include law professors of different genders, races, and sexual orientations has come a loss of community, cohesion, and coherence. But what has been gained has been a more democratic and inclusive community. To believe that academics can again speak with a unified voice is no longer possible. Instead of... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Carlos Hiraldo |
Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States |
15 Asian American Law Journal 47 (May, 2008) |
Just as media publications tend to demarcate national and international sections, as if one can be quarantined from the other, discussions of immigrant groups usually isolate the communities concerned. The United States popular media represents Asians and Latinos as separate entities inhabiting separate spheres, presuming no intersection between... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Veronica Nelly Velez |
Challenging Lies Latcrit Style: a Critical Race Reflection of an Ally to Latina/o Immigrant Parent Leaders |
4 FIU Law Review 119 (Fall, 2008) |
I was nervous as I looked over my notes, preparing to share some preliminary research about Rose Unified's current schooling dilemmas. As I tried to release some of the tension I felt, I realized that in many ways the information I was about to present, and the forum organized to share it that evening with teachers, school district officials, civic... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Lisa M. Raleigh |
Consumer Protection in the Hispanic Community |
82-FEB Florida Bar Journal 32 (February, 2008) |
The burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population, a $928 billion annual spending demographic, is being targeted with marketing messages from businesses large and small. Wal-Mart alone spends $60 million a year reaching out to this population. However, people who speak English as a second language, or who cannot read English at all, are particularly... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic |
Foreword: Latinos and the Law Symposium |
83 Indiana Law Journal 1141 (Fall, 2008) |
To: Ourselves Cc: Interested Readers Re: Our Plans and New Year's Resolutions for Future Scholarship on Latinos The reason for the carbon copy to interested readers is that we have learned, as we have gone through life, that other people may be highly resistant to advice-you really should do this-but highly receptive to gossip-I'm getting ready... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Jamie L. Crook |
From Hernandez V. Texas to the Present: Doctrinal Shifts in the Supreme Court's Latina/o Jurisprudence |
11 Harvard Latino Law Review 19 (Spring 2008) |
In one of the Supreme Court's earliest discussions of the Reconstruction Amendments, Justice Miller wrote that--along with the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments--the Fourteenth Amendment was addressed to the grievances of [the black] race, and designed to remedy them. Yet the guarantee of equal protection of the laws extended more broadly: We... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Gustavo Chacon Mendoza |
Gateway to Whiteness: Using the Census to Redefine and Reconfigure Hispanic/latino Identity, in Efforts to Preserve a White American National Identity |
30 University of La Verne Law Review 160 (November, 2008) |
Recent census projections approximate that by 2050 Whites will make up less than 50% of the United States national population. Latinos are one of the fastest growing groups in the nation. From July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005, the Hispanic community accounted for . . . 49% . . . of the national population growth of 2.8 million. The increasing... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Drew Hardman |
Hispanic Attorneys Committee Honors Magistrate Judge Bissoon |
10 No. 21 Lawyers Journal 1 (October 10, 2008) |
The Allegheny County Bar Association's Hispanic Attorneys Committee honored newly appointed Magistrate Judge Cathy Bissoon during the third-annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration, held September 25 at the Rivers Club in Pittsburgh. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, approximately 60 ACBA members and community leaders gathered to recognize Bissoon's... |
2008 |
Yes |