For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify their race. This new way of gathering data and characterizing race and ethnicity reflects important changes in how racial identity is understood in America. Besides acknowledging the presence of mixed race citizens, this new understanding promises to have major implications for American law and policy.
With this anthology, Kevin R. Johnson brings together ground-breaking scholarship on the mixed race experience in America to examine the impact of law on these...
For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify their race. This new way of...
For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify their race. This new way of gathering data and characterizing race and ethnicity reflects important changes in how racial identity is understood in America. Besides acknowledging the presence of mixed race citizens, this new understanding promises to have major implications for American law and policy.
With this anthology, Kevin R. Johnson brings together ground-breaking scholarship on the mixed race experience in America to examine the impact of law on these...
For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify their race. This new way of...
Presents an account of racial identity that takes a close look at the question 'Who is a Latino?' and determines where persons of mixed Anglo-Latino heritage fit into the racial dynamics of the United States. This book examines issues of diversity, assimilation, race relations, and affirmative action in contemporary United States.
Presents an account of racial identity that takes a close look at the question 'Who is a Latino?' and determines where persons of mixed Anglo-Latino h...
Despite rhetoric that suggests that the United States opens its doors to virtually anyone who wants to go there, immigration has been restricted since the nation began. Kevin R. Johnson argues that immigration policy reflects the social hierarchy that prevails in American society as a whole and that immigration reform is intertwined with the struggle for civil rights. disabilities, the poor, political dissidents and other disfavoured groups; the text shows how bias shapes the law. In the 19th century, for example, virulent anti-Asian bias excluded would-be immigrants from China and severely...
Despite rhetoric that suggests that the United States opens its doors to virtually anyone who wants to go there, immigration has been restricted since...
Americans from radically different political persuasions agree on the need to "fix" the "broken" US immigration laws to address serious deficiencies and improve border enforcement. In Immigration Law and the US-Mexico Border, Kevin Johnson and Bernard Trujillo focus on what for many is at the core of the entire immigration debate in modern America: immigration from Mexico. In clear, reasonable prose, Johnson and Trujillo explore the long history of discrimination against US citizens of Mexican ancestry in the United States and the current movement against "illegal...
Americans from radically different political persuasions agree on the need to "fix" the "broken" US immigration laws to address serious deficiencies a...
