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“Remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a ‘white’ race at the turn of the twentieth century . . . A must-read.” — Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaThe first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in the intersection of race and law in American society. Today, it is used and cited widely by not only legal scholars but many others interested in race, ethnicity, culture, politics, gender, and similar socially fabricated facets of American society.In the first edition, Ian Haney López traced 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, most importantly, popular opinion.Ten years after the book’s publication, Haney López revisits the legal construction of race, and argues that current race law has spawned a trou

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

Author

Ian Haney Lopez

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814751374

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Law, Fiction

Rating

4.7 / 5 (164 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14