Rethinking the Borderlands (eBook)

Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
232 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91485-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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's 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.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 insigh</DIV

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Latinos in American Society and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Latinos in American Society and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American Law • American legal system • Chicanas • Chicano history • Chicanos • court system • Criminality • Critical Legal Studies • Critical Race Studies • Cultural Studies • Gender Studies • Hispanic Studies • Historical Amnesia • Latin American History • latinos in american society and culture series • Legal Institutions • legality • Legal Objectivity • Legal system • minority social experience • Mourning • popular culture • Prison system • Psychoanalysis • racial bias • Racial Discrimination • Social Justice • United States of America
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91485-6 / 0520914856
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91485-8 / 9780520914858