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american law
american legal system
Author_Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
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chicanas
chicano history
chicanos
court system
criminality
critical legal studies
critical race studies
cultural studies
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gender studies
hispanic studies
historical amnesia
latin american history
latinos in american society and culture series
legal institutions
legal objectivity
legal system
legality
minority social experience
mourning
popular culture
prison system
psychoanalysis
racial bias
racial discrimination
social justice
united states of america
Product details
- ISBN 9780520085794
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutierrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. "Rethinking the Borderlands" is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal institutions, including the prison and the court. Gutierrez-Jones examines the process by which Chicanos have become associated with criminality in both our legal institutions and our mainstream popular culture and thereby offers a new way of understanding minority social experience. Drawing on gender studies and psychoanalysis, as well as critical legal and race studies, Gutierrez-Jones' approach to the law and legal discourse reveals the high stakes involved when concepts of social justice are fought out in the home, in the workplace and in the streets.
Carl Gutierrez-Jones is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
