Texas Mexicans and the politics of whiteness

Law and History Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 195-205

  Gross, Ariela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34247459709     PISSN: 07382480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3595072     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. See Clare Sheridan, "'Another White Race': Mexican Americans and the Paradox of Whiteness in Jury Selection,"
2. and Steven H. Wilson, "Brown over 'Other White': Mexican Americans' Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in School Desegregation Lawsuits," Law and History Review 21 (2003): 109-44 and 145-94
3. Ariela Gross, "Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South," Yale Law Journal 108 (1998): 109
4. Ian F. Haney López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (New York: New York University Press, 1996)
5. John Tehranian, "Note: Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity in America," Yale Law Journal 109 (2000): 817
6. Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
7. David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987)
8. George A. Martinez, "The Legal Construction of Race: Mexican-Americans and Whiteness," Harvard Latino Law Review 2 (1997): 321, 334-38 (discussing "the marginality of law")
9. Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans, 252
10. Foley, The White Scourge, 19, 24, 42, 61
11. Ian F. Haney López, "Race, Ethnicity, Erasure: The Salience of Race to LatCrit Theory," California Law Review 85 (1997): 1143, 1165
12. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the census used a variety of methods to count people of Mexican origin in the five southwestern states, including lists of Spanish surnames and the categories "Spanish Mother Tongue," "Spanish Language," "Spanish Heritage," and "Spanish Origin." Beginning in 1980, the general term "Hispanic" was introduced as an ethnicity category following the "race" question on the census form
13. ISD v. Salvatierra, 33 S.W. 2d 790, 792-93
14. Ramirez v. State, 40 S.W. 2d 138, 139 (1931)
15. Carrasco v. State, 95 S.W. 2d 433 (1936)
16. Lugo v. State, 124 S.W. 2d 344 (1939)
17. Sanchez v. State, 181 S.W. 2d 87 (1944)
18. Salazar v. State, 193 S.W. 2d 211 (1946)
19. Bustillos v. State, 213 S.W. 2d 837 (1948)
20. Rogers v. State, 236 S.W. 2d 141 (1951)
21. Sanchez v. State, 243 S.W. 2d 700, 701 (1951)
22. Quoted in Peggy Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century America," in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, ed. Martha Hodes (New York: New York University Press), 464-65
23. Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law," 465
24. Laura E. Gomez, "Race, Colonialism, and Criminal Law: Mexicans and the American Criminal Justice System in Territorial New Mexico," Law and Society Review 34 (2000): 1129
25. Margarita Melville, "Hispanics: Race, Class, or Ethnicity?" Journal of Ethnic Studies 16.1 (1988): 67-83
26. Laura Gomez, "The Birth of the 'Hispanic' Generation: Attitudes of Mexican-American Political Elites toward the Hispanic Label," Latin American Perspectives 19.4 (1992): 55
27. Phillip B. Gonzales, "The Political Construction of Latino Nomenclatures in Twentieth-Century New Mexico," Journal of the Southwest 35 (1993): 158-85
28. Gomez, "Birth of the 'Hispanic' Generation."
29. Clara E. Rodriguez, "Race, Culture, and Latino 'Otherness' in the 1980 Census," Social Science Quarterly 73.4 (1992): 930-37
30. See also Clara E. Rodriguez et al., "Latino Racial Identity: In the Eye of the Beholder?" Latino Studies Journal 2.3 (1991): 33-48
31. See, e.g., Nicholas Hudson, "From 'Nation' to 'Race': The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought," Eighteenth-Century Studies 29.3 (1996): 247-64
32. See also Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Construction of Peoplehood: Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity," and Etienne Balibar, "Racism and Nationalism," in Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, ed. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein (New York: Verso, 1991), 37-85
33. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel," GLQ 1 (1993): 35
34. Etienne Balibar, "Is There a 'Neo-Racism'?" in Race, Nation, Class, 26