Racial Uncertainties : Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Crossroads
ISBN-10
0520343344
ISBN-13
9780520343344
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 18th, 2022
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
526 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.90 x 2.40 cms
Ksh 14,400.00
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Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post–civil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal bureaucracy, local school officials, parents, and community activists sought to turn Mexican American racial identity to their own benefit. This is the first book that examines the pivotal 1973 Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 Supreme Court ruling, and how debates over Mexican Americans' racial position helped reinforce the emerging tropes of colorblind racial ideology. In the post–civil rights era, when overt racism was no longer socially acceptable, anti-integration voices utilized the indeterminacy of Mexican American racial identity to frame their opposition to school desegregation. That some Mexican Americans adopted these tropes only reinforced the strength of colorblindness in battles against civil rights in the 1970s.
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