Rethinking the borderlands - Between Chicano culture and legal discourse (Hardcover)

Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, this book argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. The book is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal institutions, including the prison and the court.;Gutierrez-Jones examines the process by which Chicanos have become associated with criminality in both legal institutions and mainstream popular culture in America and thereby offers a new way of understanding minority social experience. Drawing on gender studies and psychoanalysis, as well as critical legal and critical race studies, Gutierrez-Jones's approach to the law and legal discourse reveals the high stakes involved when concepts of social justice are fought out in the home, in the workplace and in the streets.

General

Imprint:	University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latinos in American society and culture
Release date:	April 1995
Authors:	Carl Gutierrez-Jones
Dimensions:	156 x 235mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-08578-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > Racism & racial discrimination Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
LSN:	0-520-08578-7
Barcode:	9780520085787

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