Colored Men and Hombres Aquí: Hernández V. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American LawyeringMichael A. Olivas Arte Publico Press, 28 Απρ 2020 - 373 σελίδες This collection of ten essays commemorates the 50th anniversary of an important but almost forgotten U.S. Supreme court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 US 475 (1954), the major case involving Mexican Americans and jury selection, published just before Brown v. Board of Education in the 1954 Supreme Court reporter. This landmark case, the first to be tried by Mexican American lawyers before the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Mexican Americans were a discrete group for purposes of applying Equal Protection. Although the case was about discriminatory state jury selection and trial practices, it has been cited for many other civil rights precedents in the intervening 50 years. Even so, it has not been given the prominence it deserves, in part because it lives in the shadow of the more compelling Brown v. Board case. There had been earlier efforts to diversify juries, reaching back at least to the trial of Gregorio Cortez in 1901 and continuing with efforts by the legendary Oscar Zeta Acosta in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Even as recently as 2005 there has been clear evidence that Latino participation in the Texas jury system is still substantially unrepresentative of the growing population. But in a brief and shining moment in 1954, Mexican-American lawyers prevailed in a system that accorded their community no legal status and no respect. Through sheer tenacity, brilliance, and some luck, they showed that it is possible to tilt against windmills and slay the dragon. Edited and with an introduction by University of Houston law scholar Michael A. Olivas, Colored Men and Hombres Aqui is the first full-length book on this case. This volume contains the papers presented at the Hernandez at 50conference which took place in 2004 at the University of Houston Law Center and also contains source materials, trial briefs, and a chronology of the case. |
Περιεχόμενα
Mexican Elites and the Rights of Indians and Blacks in NineteenthCentury New Mexico | 1 |
Race and Colorblindness after Hernandez and Brown | 41 |
Legacies of Justice and Injustice | 53 |
Why Latinos Have a Right to Sing the Blues | 91 |
Hernandez v Texas Brown v Board of Education and Black v Brown | 111 |
Mexican Americans and the Politics of Racial Classification in the Federal Judicial Bureaucracy Twentyfive Years after Hernandez v Texas | 123 |
Lessons from Hernandez v Texas | 143 |
The Amazing Story of MillerEl v Texas | 161 |
Aniceto Sanchez v State | 225 |
Aniceto Sanchez Briefs | 227 |
Hernandez v State of Texas | 241 |
Hernandez v Texas | 247 |
TRANSCRIPT OF RECORD SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER TERM 1953 | 251 |
Brief of Petitioner I | 325 |
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER TERM 1953 | 347 |
A Cotton Picker Finds Justice THE SAGA OF THE HERNANDEZ CASE Compiled by RUBEN MUNGUIA | 356 |
Hernandez at Fifty A Personal History | 199 |
A Litigation History | 209 |
Gregorio Cortezs Trial | |
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Colored Men and Hombres Aquí: Hernández V. Texas and the Emergence of ... Michael A. Olivas Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2020 |
“Colored Men” and “Hombres Aqui”: Hernández v. Texas and the Emergence of ... Michael A. Olivas Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2020 |
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