HispanicsLatinos in the United States by Jorge J.E. Gracia Pablo De Greiff

Author:Jorge J.E. Gracia, Pablo De Greiff [Jorge J.E. Gracia, Pablo De Greiff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780631217640
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Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. David Jackson and Paul de la Garza, “Rep. Gutiérrez Uncommon Target of a Too Common Slur,” Chicago Tribune, April 18, 1996, 1.

2. I first read a summary of this story in Kevin R. Johnsons thought-provoking essay “Citizens as Foreigners,” in Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds., The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 198–201.

3. The phrase “the right to have rights” was originally coined by Hannah Arendt to emphasize the condition of rightlessness and consequent plight of refugees in the postwar period. See The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1979), 296.

4. Stuart Hall and David Hall, “Citizens and Citizenship,” in Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques, eds., New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s (New York: Verso, 1990), 173–90.

5. Alexander Bickel, The Morality of Consent (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975).

6. For a thought-provoking interpretation of the social implications of the Court's decisions, cf. Kimberle W. Crenshaw, “Color Blindness, History and the Law,” in Wahneema Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997), 280–88.

7. Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney, America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 80.

8. Bickel, The Morality of Consent.

9. Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954–1992 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993).

10. Meta Mendel-Reyes, Reclaiming Democracy: The Sixties in Politics and Memory (New York: Routledge, 1995); William H. Chafe, “The End of One Struggle, the Beginning of Another,” in Charles W. Eagles, ed., The Civil Rights Movement in America (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986), pp. 127–48.

11. Lyndon B. Johnson, “To Fulfill These Rights,” in George Curry, ed., The Affirmative Action Debates (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 16, 24.

12. Elizabeth Martinez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (Boston: South End Press, 1998), 68–80; Leo Chavez, “Immigration Reform and Nativism: The Nationalist Response to the Transnationalist Challenge,” in Juan F. Perea, ed., Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 61–77.

13. Ineke Haen Marshall, “Minorities, Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States,” in I. H. Marshall, ed., Minorities, Migrants and Crime: Diversity and Similarity across Europe and the United States (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977), 1–35.

14. Referring to the debates in both the Judiciary Committee and the House of Representatives on impeachment (December 18 and 19, 1998), the editorial page of the Washington Post begins by noting that “the comity on which national political life depends has pretty plainly been lost.” It ends its somber editorial by quoting the words of a congressman, following the impeachment debates: “Rep. Peter King of New York, one of the few Republicans to buck his own party, yesterday lamented that the House is, with its impeachment vote, Continuing our spiral toward a government subject to the whims of independent counsels, and based in the frenzied politics of the moment, rather than a government of immutable principles and transcendent institutions.

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