Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of

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Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post–civil 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 post–civil 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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"Finally, a book that unlocks Keyes ! As Danielle R. Olden demonstrates, this pivotal 1973 case is best understood as the Supreme Court's first 'western' desegregation decision, owing to the beyond black-and-white complexities that Mexican Americans introduced into the conceptualization of desegregation and how to implement it. In this way, Racial Uncertainties joins a growing body of scholarship that widens the lens for thinking about civil rights history--demographically, geographically, and, as a result, analytically."--Mark Brilliant, author of The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 " Racial Uncertainties is an innovative, well-researched, and well-written book that pushes the boundaries of the field. Olden takes the story of segregation out of the South and examines it in the context of the regional racial lexicon of the multi-ethnic, multi-racial West. Through analysis, Olden shows how Brown v. Board has ramifications far beyond the African American population, and demonstrates the multiple complex strategies different groups used to challenge school segregation."--Natalia Molina, author of A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

Author Biography

Danielle R. Olden is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. 

Table of Contents

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • (Un)making Mexican American Racial Identity, 1848–19642 • Racial Migrations: The Mile High City in Transition, 1945–19693 • Public Schools in Denver's Racialized Urban Geography4 • Becoming Minority under the Law5 • "Not White, Yet Not, in the Old-Style Parlance, 'Colored' "6 • "American," Not "Minority": Mexican Americans and ColorblindnessConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Review

"This is an important book, and educational, civil rights, and Texas historians will find much within to appreciate and discuss." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Racial Uncertainties explains how racial and ethnic identities are both time and space specific but also how the law works to cement our understanding of identity and eliminate the possibility for fluidity." * The Society for US Intellectual History *

Details ISBN0520343352 Author Danielle R. Olden Short Title Racial Uncertainties Publisher University of California Press Series American Crossroads Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0520343352 ISBN-13 9780520343351 Format Paperback Series Number 68 Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Illustrations 18 b-w photos, 1 map Publication Date 2022-10-18 AU Release Date 2022-10-18 NZ Release Date 2022-10-18 US Release Date 2022-10-18 UK Release Date 2022-10-18 Pages 298 Subtitle Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America DEWEY 379.2630978883 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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