White by law
Subtitle: the legal construction of race
By: Ian F. Haney López.
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States; Whites -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on whiteness; title: White lines; title: Racial restrictions in the law of citizenship; title: The prerequisite cases; title: Ozawa and Thind; title: The legal constructions of race; title: White race-consciousness; title: The value to whites of whiteness; title: Appendix A. The racial prerequisite cases; title: Appendix B. Excerpts from selected prerequisite cases.