40 Whiteness At The Margins: Hernández v. Texas and Latino Racial Politics in the United States

HUM 300: Whiteness At The Margins: Hernández v. Texas and Latino Racial Politics in the United States

HUM 300 Faculty

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history and legal ramifications of Hernández v. Texas, a little-known but important Supreme Court case that addressed the racial position of Mexican-Americans. The course examines the unique history of racial categorization and mestizaje in Latin America, the legal frameworks of racial discrimination and segregation in the United States as applied to persons of Latin American descent, the ways in which Latinos organized and challenged racial discrimination, and the impact of the legal cases such as Hernández v. Texas in combatting discrimination.

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