View the Table of Contents. Read the Preface.
Praise for the 10th Anniversary Edition
"White by Law remains one of the most significant and generative
entries in the crowded field of 'whiteness studies.' Ian Haney
LA3pez has crafted a brilliant study, not merely of how 'race'
figures in the juridical logic of U.S. citizenship, but of the ways
in which law fully participates in the wholesale manufacture of
those naturalized groupings we know as 'races.' A terribly
important work."
--Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of "Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival
in Post-Civil Rights America"
"Ten years after its initial publication, White by Law remains
the definitive treatment of the naturalization cases, and provides
a compelling account of the role of law in constructing race. A
wonderful combination of thematic development and historical
excavation, one leaves this revised edition with a thoroughgoing
understanding of the ways in which citizenship functioned not only
to include and exclude but as a process through which people quite
literally became white by law."
--Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, UCLA
School of Law
"White by Law remains the definitive work on how American law
constructed a 'white' race at the turn of the twentieth century.
Haney LA3pez has added a chapter to the new edition, a sobering
analysis of how, in our own time, 'colorblind' law and policy
threaten to perpetuate, not eliminate, racial inequality. A
must-read."
--Mae M. Ngai, author of "Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and
the Making of Modern America"
aHere is one work that proved challenging to review with a fresh
eye, having been widely reviewed and discussed since itsoriginal
publication more than 10 years agoa].While oneas first question
upon picking up such a book could easily be awhy bother?a with the
re-release of an older work, in this case, the strategy
worksa].[T]he addition of the authoras personal narrative in the
Preface and his intriguing view into the future with the new
conclusion will add to the bookas pedagogical value. In sum, Haney
Lopez has provided a piece of scholarship worthy of bringing out a
curtain call on its 10th anniversary.a
--"Law and Politics Review"
Praise for the 1st edition:
"Haney LA3pez performs a major service for anyone truly
interested in understanding contemporary debates over racial and
ethnic politics. . . . A sobering and crucial lesson for a society
committed to equality and fairness."
--Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
"This book is remarkable for sheer information value, but draws
its analytic power from the emphasis on whiteness to make sense of
racial oppression. . . . Haney LA3pez convincingly demonstrates
that the US is ideologically white not by accident but by
design."
--"Choice"
White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim,
and established Ian Haney LA3pez as one of the most exciting and
talented young minds in the legal academy. The 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 thefirst edition of White by Law, Haney LA3pez 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 later, Haney LA3pez revisits the legal construction of
race, and argues that current race law has spawned a troubling
racial ideology that perpetuates inequality under a new guise:
colorblind white dominance. In a new, original essay written
specifically for the 10th anniversary edition, he explores this
racial paradigm and explains how it contributes to a system of
white racial privilege socially and legally defended by restrictive
definitions of what counts as race and as racism, and what doesn't,
in the eyes of the law. The book also includes a new preface, in
which Haney LA3pez considers how his own personal experiences with
white racial privilege helped engender White by Law.
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