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Albert M. Camarillo Gratz, et Al. V. Bollinger, et Al., No. 97-75321 (E.d. Mich.)Grutter, et Al. V. Bollinger, et Al, No. 97-75928 (E.d. Mich.) 1. My Name Is Albert M. Camarillo. I Am Professor of History and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnici 5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 339 (Fall 1999) 2. I received my A.B. degree and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970 and 1975 respectively. A detailed record of my professional qualifications and scholarly achievements is set forth in the attached curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, awards, research grants, and professional activities. 3. I have... 1999  
Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas History, Legal Scholarship, and Latcrit Theory: the Case of Racial Transformations circa the Spanish American War, 1896-1900 78 Denver University Law Review 921 (2001) The period from 1896 to 1900, the period prior to, during, and immediately following the Spanish American War, which became known to Americans as the splendid little war, was a momentous time. An in-depth study of this five-year period--the events leading to the Spanish American War, the War itself and its aftermath--yields a rich and deep... 2001  
Marc E. Jácome Human Rights on the Border: a Critical Race Analysis of Hernandez V. Mesa 67 UCLA Law Review 1268 (November, 2020) This Comment presents a historical investigation of the violence that establishes nationstate borders. The analysis deconstructs the U.S.--Mexico border through the 2010 shooting of Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca, and asks how the framework of human rights may provide justice for this tragedy. In 2015, the Fifth Circuit for the U.S. Court of...; Search Snippet: ...and outside are part of a long history of colonial racism that continues to this day. Although seldom associated with colonialism... 2020  
Charles R. Venator Santiago Huntington's White Patriotism and Anzaldua's Brown Nationalism 4 FIU Law Review 33 (Fall, 2008) In recent years, several faculty members of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University have been publishing texts that contribute to a politics of backlash. These backlash narratives have been central to the framing of a conservative ideological discourse that has been seeking to overturn the progressive legacies of the New... 2008  
Kai Bartolomeo Immigration and the Constitutionality of Local Self Help: Escondido's Undocumented Immigrant Rental Ban 17 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 855 (Summer 2008) And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred. -John Steinbeck The City of Escondido sits about eighteen miles east of the California coast, just north of the heart of San Diego County. Once the home of ranches, farms and citrus groves, Escondido now has all the benefits of city living. In the words of City promoters, Escondido... 2008  
Kitty Calavita Immigration Law, Race, and Identity 3 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1 (2007) ethnicity, naturalization, exclusion, Hurricane Katrina This review examines the scholarship at the intersection of immigration law, race, and identity. Historically, much of the literature has focused on the ways immigration law has constructed, and been constructed by, racial categories. I argue that African American racialization has been a... 2007  
Jo Carrillo In Translation for the Latino Market Today: Acknowledging the Rights of Consumers in a Multilingual Housing Market 11 Harvard Latino Law Review 1 (Spring 2008) The Federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) requires lenders to disclose the full cost of credit to borrowers. In the case of linguistic minorities, California law goes one step further. Under California Civil Code section 1632, lenders are required to provide unexecuted translations of loan documents to consumers whose language of proficiency is... 2008  
Ian F. Haney López Institutional Racism: Judicial Conduct and a New Theory of Racial Discrimination 109 Yale Law Journal 1717 (June, 2000) I. Introduction. 1721 II. Discrimination in the Selection of Los Angeles County Grand Jurors. 1730 A. Discretion Codified. 1730 B. Judicial Practice: Friends and Neighbors. 1732 C. Inside the Circle. 1735 D. Outside the Circle. 1737 E. Extraracial Discrimination. 1740 F. Discrimination by the Numbers. 1741 G. Jury Discrimination and the... 2000  
George A. Martinez Introduction 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 787 (Summer, 2000) The U.C. Davis Law Review is an especially appropriate venue for this LatCrit Symposium. The Law Review recognized early on the significance of legal discourse focused on Latinos and published some of the early LatCrit works. It seems appropriate to acknowledge the pioneering work of law reviews, just as Kevin Johnson has suggested in the Foreword... 2000  
Elizabeth M. Iglesias , Francisco Valdes Latcrit at Five: Institutionalizing a Postsubordination Future 78 Denver University Law Review 1249 (2001) I. Reflections on LatCrit Theory and Consciousness: Five Years of Intellectual Journeys A. Origins: An Overview B. Coming Together: Moments and Notes of Collective Learning 1. LatCrit V: From Class-versus-Identity to Critical Coalitional Communities 2. Race and Ethnicity: From Domestic Paradigms to International Contexts II. LatCrit Praxis:... 2001  
Berta Hernández-Truyol, Angela Harris, Francisco Valdés Latcrit X Afterword: Beyond the First Decade: a Forward-looking History of Latcrit Theory, Community and Praxis 26 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 237 (Spring 2006) Introduction. 238 I. A Brief History of LatCrit Precursors. 241 A. Intellectual and Political Sources of LatCrit/CRT. 241 1. Intellectual Sources of LatCrit. 241 2. Political Sources of LatCrit. 248 II. LatCrit: From Concept to Practice. 252 A. Origins: Background Experience and Social Context. 253 B. The First Decade: Learning From Experience.... 2006  
Jean Stefancic Latino and Latina Critical Theory: an Annotated Bibliography 10 La Raza Law Journal 423 (Spring 1998) Latino/a critical scholarship, though largely ignored, has been around for a long time. One might say that its progenitor was Rodolfo Acuña, whose book Occupied America, originally published in 1972, is now in its third edition. Acuña was the first scholar to reformulate American history to take account of U.S. colonization of land formerly held by... 1998  
Jean Stefancic Latino and Latina Critical Theory: an Annotated Bibliography 85 California Law Review 1509 (October, 1997) Latino/a critical scholarship, though largely ignored, has been around for a long time. One might say that its progenitor was Rodolfo Acuña, whose book Occupied America, originally published in 1972, is now in its third edition. Acuña was the first scholar to reformulate American history to take account of U.S. colonization of land formerly held by... 1997  
Camilo M. Ortiz Latinos Nowhere in Sight: Erased by Racism, Nativism, the Black-white Binary, and Authoritarianism 13 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 29 (2012) In May 2010, two weeks after the Arizona state legislature passed Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070), Juan Varela was fatally shot in the neck by his next door neighbor, Gary Kelley. Prior to the killing, Kelley had repeatedly said to Varela, Hurry up and go back to Mexico, or you're gonna die[!] It is uncertain what specific events led Kelley to shoot... 2012  
Luz E. Herrera , Pilar Margarita Hernández, Escontrías, Ph.D. LATINXS RESHAPING LAW & POLICY IN THE U.S. SOUTH 31 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 1 (Winter, 2022) This article addresses the key law and policy levers affecting Latinxs in what the U.S. Census Bureau designates as the South. Since the rise of the Latinx population from the 1980s onward, few legal scholars and researchers have participated in a sustained dialogue about how law and policy affects Latinxs living in the South. In response to this... 2022  
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  
Robert F. Castro Law, Non-linear Racialization, and Asymmetrical Hierarchies in the American West: an Ode to Manifest Destinies 10 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 469 (2009) Professor Laura Gómez has written a lean and bold book, Manifest Destinies. With lawyerly prose, she succinctly re-creates Mexican American history by weaving together detailed, often times poignant, socio-legal narratives. Like the red chile ristras that adorn her native New Mexico, Gómez carefully strings together these narratives into an... 2009  
Lupe S. Salinas Lawless Cops, Latino Injustice, and Revictimization by the Justice System 2018 Michigan State Law Review 1095 (2018) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction: Perceptions and Realities. 1097 I. The United States Latino Socioracial Experience. 1110 A. Mexico's Revolution from Spain and the Texas Republic, 1820-1848. 1110 B. The Mexicanization of the United States, 1848-1941. 1113 C. The Latinization of America, 1942-Present. 1119 D. United States Latinos and the... 2018  
Kevin R. Johnson Lawyering for Social Change: What's a Lawyer to Do? 5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 201 (Fall 1999) INTRODUCTION. 201 I. Litigation Versus Politics in Tying Theory to Practice. 206 II. The Duties of Lawyers to Clients as a Constraint on Social Change. 215 A. Conceptions of the Social Change Attorney and the Attorney's Professional Responsibilities to Clients. 217 1. The Zealous Advocate. 217 2. The Impact Lawyer. 220 3. The Critical Lawyer. 222... 1999  
Guadalupe T. Luna Legal Realism and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: a Fractionalized Legal Template 2005 Wisconsin Law Review 519 (2005) This project is rooted in the principles of New Legal Realism, which promotes approaching law from the bottom up while also obligating an examination of legal elites. The driving focus of this inquiry thus stems from the law's marginalizing force through the unequal enforcement of an international peace agreement that terminated the U.S. war... 2005  
Richard Delgado Locating Latinos in the Field of Civil Rights: Assessing the Neoliberal Case for Radical Exclusion 83 Texas Law Review 489 (December, 2004) Poor Latinos! Nobody loves them. Think-tank conservatives like Peter Brimelow, joined by a few liberals and a host of white supremacist websites, have been warning against the Latino threat: Because our dark-haired friends from south of the border insist on preserving their peculiar language and ways, they endanger the integrity of our Anglocentric... 2004  
Gloria Sandrino-Glasser Los Confundidos: De-conflating Latinos/as' Race and Ethnicity 19 Chicano-Latino Law Review 69 (Spring 1998) Introduction. 71 I. Latinos: A Demographic Portrait. 75 A. Latinos: Dispelling the Legacy of Homogenization. 75 B. Los Confundidos: Who are We? (?Quién Somos?). 77 1. Mexican-Americans: The Native Sons and Daughters. 77 2. Mainland Puerto Ricans: The Undecided. 81 3. Cuban-Americans: Last to Come, Most to Gain. 85 II. The Conflation: An Overview.... 1998  
Margaret E. Montoya Máscaras Y Trenzas: Reflexiones Un Proyecto De Identidad Y Análisis a Través De Veinte Adnos 36 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 469 (Summer 2013) On the street at night I whistled popular tunes from the Beatles and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The tension drained from people's bodies when they heard me. Brent Staples, quoted by Claude M. Steele From their inception, names--including first names, surnames, names of groups, and even story, book, and academic article titles--are embedded with... 2013  
Margaret E. Montoya Máscaras Y Trenzas: Reflexiones Un Proyecto De Identidad Y Análisis a Través De Veinte Años 32 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 7 (2014) Using Spanish to Wrestle Brown Space into White Space On the street at night I whistled popular tunes from the Beatles and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The tension drained from people's bodies when they heard me. Brent Staples, quoted by Claude M. Steele From their inception, names--including first names, surnames, names of groups, and even story, book,... 2014  
Ediberto Román Members and Outsiders: an Examination of the Models of United States Citizenship as Well as Questions Concerning European Union Citizenship 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 81 (2000/2001) I. L2-3,T3Introduction 81 II. L2-3,T3The Scope of American Citizenship 82 III. L2-3,T3The Models of United States Citizenship 88 A. The True Fourteenth Amendment Citizens. 89 B. The Other Fourteenth Amendment Citizens. 90 C. The Alien-Citizens. 100 IV. L2-3,T3European Union Citizenship 107 V. L2-3,T3Conclusion 113 2001  
Thomas A. Saenz Mendez and the Legacy of Brown: a Latino Civil Rights Lawyer's Assessment 19 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 395 (2004) While we appropriately celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolutionary Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, this is also an occasion, particularly for the Mexican-American community, to reflect on two other important twentieth-century civil rights cases: Mendez v. Westminster School District, and Hernandez v. Texas.... 2004  
Thomas A. Saenz Mendez and the Legacy of Brown: a Latino Civil Rights Lawyer's Assessment 6 African-American Law and Policy Report 194 (2004) While we appropriately celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolutionary Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, this is also an occasion, particularly for the Mexican-American community, to reflect on two other important twentieth-century civil rights cases: Mendez v. Westminster School District, and Hernandez v. Texas.... 2004  
Thomas A. Saenz Mendez and the Legacy of Brown: a Latino Civil Rights Lawyer's Assessment 11 Asian Law Journal 276 (May, 2004) While we appropriately celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolutionary Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, this is also an occasion, particularly for the Mexican-American community, to reflect on two other important twentieth-century civil rights cases: Mendez v. Westminster School District, and Hernandez v. Texas.... 2004  
Thomas A. Saenz Mendez and the Legacy of Brown: a Latino Civil Rights Lawyer's Assessment 15 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 67 (Spring 2004) While we appropriately celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolutionary Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, this is also an occasion, particularly for the Mexican-American community, to reflect on two other important twentieth-century civil rights cases: Mendez v. Westminster School District, and Hernandez v. Texas.... 2004  
Susan Scafidi Native Americans and Civic Identity in Alta California 75 North Dakota Law Review 423 (1999) One year after California successfully petitioned for statehood, news surfaced in the southern part of the state that a shrewd Indian named Roane was impersonating an American alcalde. While this unauthorized assumption of administrative and perhaps judicial functions may or may not have proven lucrative for the purported office-holder, it... 1999  
Monika U. Ehrman NATURAL RESOURCE PROPERTY CUSTOMS 41 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1 (2023) This Article examines the role that property customs played in the development of American mining law. It analyzes how small communities of international miners developed systems of property governance and how those customary systems led to the shaping of mineral ownership and mining legislation in America. Natural resource communities often rely... 2023  
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  
Douglas M. Coulson Persecutory Agency in the Racial Prerequisite Cases: Islam, Christianity, and Martyrdom in United States V. Cartozian 2 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 117 (2012) Introduction. 119 The Legal and Historical Conte xt of Cartozian. 131 The Cartozian Trial: A Story of Persecution and Martyrdom. 143 The Historical Interpretation of Race and the Problem of Narrativity in Judge Wolverton's Opinion. 166 Transcending Racial Divisions by Unifying Against Common Enemies. 178 2012  
Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr. Personal Memoir: Judge William E. Doyle and Governor Ralph L. Carr; Peers for Equal Justice 90 Denver University Law Review 1121 (2013) In this personal recollection, Justice Hobbs relates how clerking for Judge William E. Doyle early in the history of the Keyes case eventually led Justice Hobbs to serving on the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Hobbs compares Judge Doyle to Governor Ralph Carr as peers for justice who upheld the civil rights of others, despite being reviled by many... 2013  
  Plenary Session Transcript 40 U.C. Davis Law Review 1275 (March, 2007) Sunder: We are going to get started with this plenary portion. Thanks to all of you who were part of our discussions during the day. I think we are all quite excited and delighted by what has already taken place here and really looking forward to this dialogue and some debate, too, I am expecting, as we move forward. So we are here to continue and,... 2007  
Ian F. Haney Lopez Protest, Repression, and Race: Legal Violence and the Chicano Movement 150 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 205 (November, 2001) Until the late 1960s, the Mexican community in the United States thought of itself as racially White. That is not how Anglos thought of Mexicans, of course. Largely beginning with the nineteenth-century period of intense Anglo-Mexican conflict in the Southwest, Anglo society perceived Mexicans as racially separate and inferior. By the 1920s, the... 2001  
Pedro A. Malavet Puerto Rico:cultural Nation, American Colony 6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 1 (Fall 2000) INTRODUCTION. 2 I. Historical Development of the Legal Relationship between Puerto Rico and the Estados Unidos de Norteamérica (U.S.A.). 11 A. Historical Antecedents: The First Colony. 12 B. The Second Colony: Development of the United States-Puerto Rico Legal Regime. 21 1. Booty of the Spanish-American War. 21 2. Legal Consequences of the New... 2000  
Laura E. Gómez Race Mattered: Racial Formation and the Politics of Crime in Territorial New Mexico 49 UCLA Law Review 1395 (June, 2002) In this Article, Professor Gómez elaborates on Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theory of racial formation. First, she provides an empirical application of the theory to a particular legal context: criminal litigation in late-nineteenth-century New Mexico. Second, while Omi and Winant emphasize the theory's fit with mid- and late-twentieth-century... 2002  
Ian F. Haney López Race, Ethnicity, Erasure: the Salience of Race to Latcrit Theory 10 La Raza Law Journal 57 (Spring 1998) On September 20, 1951, an all-White grand jury in Jackson County, Texas indicted twenty-six-year-old Pete Hernández for the murder of another farm worker, Joe Espinosa. Gus García and John Herrera, lawyers with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Mexican-American civil rights organization, took up Hernández's case, hoping to use... 1998  
Ian F. Haney López Race, Ethnicity, Erasure: the Salience of Race to Latcrit Theory 85 California Law Review 1143 (October, 1997) On September 20, 1951, an all-White grand jury in Jackson County, Texas indicted twenty-six-year-old Pete Hernández for the murder of another farm worker, Joe Espinosa. Gus García and John Herrera, lawyers with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Mexican-American civil rights organization, took up Hernández's case, hoping to use... 1997  
Kevin R. Johnson Race, the Immigration Laws, and Domestic Race Relations: a "Magic Mirror" into the Heart of Darkness 73 Indiana Law Journal 1111 (Fall, 1998) L1-2Introduction 1112 I. The History of Racial Exclusion in the U.S. Immigration Laws. 1119 A. From Chinese Exclusion to General Asian Subordination. 1120 1. Chinese Exclusion and Reconstruction. 1122 2. Japanese Internment and Brown v. Board of Education. 1124 B. The National Origins Quota System. 1127 C. Modern Racial Exclusion. 1131 1. The War... 1998  
Steven R. Wolfson Racial Profiling in Texas Department of Public Safety Traffic Stops: Race Aware or Race Benign? 8 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 117 (Spring 2006) I. Introduction. 118 II. What is Racial Profiling?. 124 III. Literature Review. 142 IV. Data. 167 V. Statistical Analysis. 173 A. Statewide Cross - Tabulation Comparisons of Searches. 179 1. 2002. 179 2. 2003. 179 B. Statewide Cross-Tabulation Comparisons of Hit Rates. 180 1. 2002. 180 2. 2003. 181 C. Summary Interpretation of Search and Hit Rates.... 2006  
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Reapportionment and Latino Political Power in California in the Wake of the 1990 Census 5 La Raza Law Journal 28 (Spring, 1992) INTRODUCTION. 29 I. THE PROBLEM. 30 A. Definitions and Techniques. 30 B. Historic Discrimination Against Latinos. 32 II. NORMATIVE MODELS OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. 35 A. Madisonian Republicanism. 35 B. Proportional Representation. 38 III. DESCRIPTIVE APPLICATIONS OF THE NORMATIVE MODELS. 40 A. One Person, One Vote Doctrine. 40 B. Voting Rights... 1992  
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  
Eric A. Posner , Adrian Vermeule Reparations for Slavery and Other Historical Injustices 103 Columbia Law Review 689 (April, 2003) Victims of historical injustices who have no positive law claim against wrongdoers often seek reparations from governments, and occasionally they obtain them. The best known reparations programs are those for Japanese Americans who were interned by the United States government during World War II, and for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. But there... 2003  
Pedro A. Malavet Reparations Theory and Postcolonial Puerto Rico: Some Preliminary Thoughts 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 387 (Fall 2002) Introduction: Why Are You Here?. 387 I. Rotating Centers in the Reparations Discourse: The Sensitive Matter of Race. 393 II. Reparations Theory Through a LatCrit Lens. 399 A. The Legislation-Litigation Paradox for Reparations. 399 B. Constructing a LatCritical Meaning for Reparations. 404 C. Re/Creating Citizenship for Oppressed Groups Through... 2002  
William P. Quigley Revolutionary Lawyering: Addressing the Root Causes of Poverty and Wealth 20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 101 (2006) I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the... 2006  
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  
Judith A.M. Scully Seeing Color, Seeing Whiteness, Making Change: One Woman's Journey in Teaching Race and American Law 39 University of Toledo Law Review 59 (Fall 2007) TEACHING Race, Racism, and American Law is a very personal journey for both teachers and students. My purpose in writing this article is to share my experience teaching Race, Racism, and American Law on both a personal and academic level. Race is a crucial part of our history and identity and yet it is not commonly confronted in law school classes.... 2007  
Monika U. Ehrman SUPRANATURAL RESOURCE PROPERTY CUSTOMS 41 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1 (2023) This Article examines the role that property customs played in the development of American mining law. It analyzes how small communities of international miners developed systems of property governance and how those customary systems led to the shaping of mineral ownership and mining legislation in America. Natural resource communities often rely... 2023  
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