Racial Uncertainties
Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in PostâCivil Rights America
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Racial Uncertainties
Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in PostâCivil Rights America
About This Book
Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the postâcivil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal bureaucracy, local school officials, parents, and community activists sought to turn Mexican American racial identity to their own benefit. This is the first book that examines the pivotal 1973 Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 Supreme Court ruling, and how debates over Mexican Americans' racial position helped reinforce the emerging tropes of colorblind racial ideology. In the postâcivil rights era, when overt racism was no longer socially acceptable, anti-integration voices utilized the indeterminacy of Mexican American racial identity to frame their opposition to school desegregation. That some Mexican Americans adopted these tropes only reinforced the strength of colorblindness in battles against civil rights in the 1970s.
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Table of contents
- Series Page
- Map
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1  â˘Â  (Un)making Mexican American Racial Identity, 1848â1964
- 2  â˘Â  Racial Migrations: The Mile High City in Transition, 1945â1969
- 3  â˘Â  Public Schools in Denverâs Racialized Urban Geography
- 4  â˘Â  Becoming Minority under the Law
- 5  â˘Â  âNot White, Yet Not, in the Old-Style Parlance, âColoredâââ
- 6  â˘Â  âAmerican,â Not âMinorityâ: Mexican Americans and Colorblindness
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index