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A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights : FDR and the Controversy Over "Whiteness" /

"In 1935 a federal court judge handed down a ruling that could have been disastrous for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and all Latinos in the United States. However, in an unprecedented move, the Roosevelt administration wielded the power of "administrative law" to neutralize the decisi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lukens, Patrick D., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nativists and immigration law to 1924
  • Mexican restriction debates, 1924-30
  • Good neighbors and new dealers
  • Mexicans, Mexican Americans and civil rights
  • The Andrade Decision
  • Efforts to thwart the Andrade Decision using the traditional approach
  • Applying administrative law to the Andrade Decision
  • The racial classification policy : problems and successes
  • Consequences, unintended consequences and failures.