White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race: 16 (Critical America)

Ian Haney Lopez . NewYorkUniversityPress . English

Traces the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opinion, and more.

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