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October 22, 2007

Book Review: Colored Men and Hombres Aqui": Hernandez v. Texas and the Rise of Mexican American Lawyering by Michael A. Olivas

Colored_men_and_hombres_aqui_120px For a thoughtful review of the book Colored Men and Hombres Aqui": Hernandez v. Texas and the Rise of Mexican American Lawyering by Michael A. Olivas, see Download rumbaut_debunking_mexican_american_apartheid.pdf

In the book, a number of leading scholars consider the legacy of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Hernandez v. Texas, which found unconstitutional the exclusion of Mexican-American citizens from a criminal jury.

KJ

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