Title: Racism on trial
First published: 2003
Description: "Ian Haney Lopez tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student walkouts. He demonstrates how racial prejudice led to police brutality and judicial discrimination that in turn spurred Chicano militancy. He also shows that legal violence helped to convince Chicano activists that they were nonwhite, thereby encouraging their use of racial ideas to redefine their aspirations, culture, and selves.

In a ground-breaking advance that further connects legal racism and racial politics, Haney Lopez describes how race functions as "common sense," a set of ideas that we take for granted in our daily lives. This racial common sense, Haney Lopez argues, largely explains why racism and racial affiliation persist today."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Mexican Americans, Race relations, Racism, Legal status, laws, Case studies, Trials, litigation, Race identity, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Political activists
Places: East Los Angeles, California, United States, East Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F869.E18 H36 2003