Foreword: Latinos and the law symposium

Indiana Law Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1141-1149

  Delgado, Richard ^a   Stefancic, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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References (35)

1. See, e.g., Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967) (holding that the Fourth Amendment does not bar warrantless wiretapping); NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, THE SCARLET LETTER (1850) (recounting how the narrator discovered papers documenting evidence against adulteress Hester Prynne).
2. E.g., RICHARD DELGADO & JEAN STEFANCIC, UNDERSTANDING WORDS THAT WOUND (2004) (discussing legal measures against hate speech of various types).
3. E.g., RICHARD DELGADO & JEAN STEFANCIC, CRITICAL RACE THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION (2001 ) (discussing organizational history and main themes of this area of law).
4. E.g., THE LATINO/A CONDITION: A CRITICAL READER (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., 1998).
5. See, e.g., Richard Delgado, Rodrigo's Fifteenth Chronicle: Racial Mixture, Latino-Critical Scholarship, and the Black-White Binary, 75 TEX. L. REV. 1181 (1997); Juan F. Perea, The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The "Normal Science " of American Racial Thought, 85 CAL. L. REV. 1213 (1997).
6. Perea, supra note 5; see also JUAN F. PEREA, RICHARD DELGADO, ANGELA P. HARRIS, STEPHANIE M. WILDMAN, & JEAN STEFANCIC, RACE AND RACES: CASES AND RESOURCES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA (2d ed. 2007) (analyzing histories and legal fortunes of several groups of color and white ethnics).
7. Latino graduation rate is only about fifty-three percent. See Jose A Villalba, Patrick Akos, Kara Keeter & Abigail Ames, Promoting Latino Student Achievement and Development through the ASCA National Model, PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELING, June 1, 2007, at 464. The African American rate is considerably higher. See Thomas C. Williams, Editorial, Black Culture Beyond Hip-Hop, WASH. POST, May 28, 2007, at A17 ("[T]he African American high school graduation rate has stagnated at 70 percent for the past three decades.").
8. See Gary Long, UTB-TSC Celebrates King's Life, BROWNSVILLE HERALD (Tex.), Jan. 31, 2008.
9. Joan K. Magilvy, Joann G. Congdon & Ruby J. Martinez, Caring for our Own: Health Care Experiences of Rural Hispanic Elders, 2 J. OF AGING STUD. 171 (2000).
10. Cass Sunstein, Well-Being and the State, 197 HARV. L. REV. 1303, 1321 (1994); UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1993, at 136, tbl. 1.
11. LatCrit: Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc., http://www.latcrit.org (listing the organization's tenets and activities). On the LatCrit movement, see Keith Aoki & Kevin R. Johnson, An Assessment of LatCrit Theory Ten Years Afier, 83 IND. L.J. 1151 (2008); Margaret E. Montoya & Francisco Valdes, "Latinas/os" and The Politics of Knowledge Production: LatCrit Scholarship and Academic Activism as Social Justice Action, 83 IND. L.J. 1197 (2008).
12. On the role of essentialism in social change, see Richard Delgado, Rodrigo's Sixth Chronicle: Intersections, Essences, and the Dilemma of Social Reform, 68 N.Y.U. L. REV. 639 (1993).
13. See, e.g., PEREA ET AL., supra note 6 (detailing this history); Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, The Land that Democratic Theory Forgot, 83 IND. L.J. 1525 (2008).
14. E.g., Richard Delgado, Linking Arms: Recent Books on Interracial Coalition as an Avenue of Social Reform, 88 CORNELL L. REV. 855, 874 (2003).
15. See RICHARD DELGADO, JUAN F. PEREA & JEAN STEFANCIC, LATINOS AND THE LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (forthcoming, West/Thompson Pub. Co., 2008) (detailing all these differences).
16. See generally Juan F. Perea, Demography and Distrust: An Essay on American Languages, Cultural Pluralism, and Official English, 77 MINN. L. REV. 269 (1992); Àngel R. Oquendo, Straight From the Mouth of the Volcano: The Lowdown on Law, Language, and Latin@s, 83 IND. L.J. 1481 (2008).
17. See DELGADO ET AL., supra note 15 (setting out the inadequacy of existing theories to redress these and other injuries).
18. See, e.g., THE POST-COLONIAL STUDIES READER (Bill Ashcroft et al. eds., 2d ed. 2006); Chantal Thomas, Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations on Methodology, 45 VILL. L. REV. 1195 (2000).
19. See THE POST-COLONIAL STUDIES READER, supra note 18; Richard Delgado, Rodrigo's Corrida: Race, Postcolonial Theory, and U.S. Civil Rights, 60 VAND. L. REV. 1691 (2007)[hereinafter Delgado, Rodrigo's Corrida]; Thomas, supra note 18.
20. See Delgado, Rodrigo's Corrida, supra note 19.
21. Id. (reviewing the work of these authors and explaining their relevance to U. S. domestic civil rights struggles).
22. Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma, 93 HARV. L. REV. 518 (1980).
23. IAN F. HANEY LÓPEZ, RACISM ON TRIAL: THE CHICANO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE (2003) (recounting how sixties-era community activism gave rise to a new Chicano identity).
24. See, e.g., PEREA ET AL., supra note 6, at 323-40 (addressing one community's resistance to illegitimate authority).
25. See id. ; HANEY LÓPEZ, supra note 23.
26. PLATO, THE REPUBLIC (G.M.A. Grube trans., Hackett Pub. Co. 1974) (date of original publication).
27. 347 U.S. 483 (1954); cf. Michael A. Olivas, The "Trial of the Century" that Never Was: Staff Sgt. Macario Garcia, the Congressional Medal of Honor, and the Oasis Café, 83 IND. L.J. 1391(2008).
28. See Bell, supra note 22 (positing that this landmark decision was the product of a temporary alignment of white and black interests).
29. 347 U.S. 475 (1954).
30. For the view that this case, too, came about because of a temporary convergence of white and Latino interests, see generally Richard Delgado, Rodrigo's Roundelay: Hernandez v. Texas and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma, 41 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 23 (2006). For a history and analysis of the case's importance, see generally "COLORED MEN" AND "HOMBRES AQUI": HERNANDEZ V. TEXAS AND THE EMERGENCE OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN LAWYERING (Michael A. Olivas ed., 2006).
31. See generally PEREA ET AL., supra note 6, at 295-97 (describing the role of the famous Latino outlaw).
32. See DELGADO ET AL., supra note 15.
33. See Delgado, Rodrigo's Corrida, supra note 19.
34. See THE LATINO/A CONDITION, supra note 4.
35. See supra note 31 and accompanying text.