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A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights
2012
Overview
In 1935 a federal court judge handed down a ruling that could have been disastrous for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and all Latinos in the United States. However, in an unprecedented move, the Roosevelt administration wielded the power of \"administrative law\" to neutralize the decision and thereby dealt a severe blow to the nativist movement.A Quiet Victory for Latino Rightsrecounts this important but little-known story.To the dismay of some nativist groups, the Immigration Act of 1924, which limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted annually, did not apply to immigrants from Latin America. In response to nativist legal maneuverings, the 1935 decision said that the act could be applied to Mexican immigrants. That decision, which ruled that the Mexican petitioners were not \"free white person[s],\" might have paved the road to segregation for all Latinos.The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), founded in 1929, had worked to sensitize the Roosevelt administration to the tenuous position of Latinos in the United States. Advised by LULAC, the Mexican government, and the US State Department, the administration used its authority under administrative law to have all Mexican immigrants--and Mexican Americans--classified as \"white.\" It implemented the policy when the federal judiciary \"acquiesced\" to the New Deal, which in effect prevented further rulings.In recounting this story, complete with colorful characters and unlikely bedfellows, Patrick Lukens adds a significant chapter to the racial history of the United States.
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Subject
/ Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
/ Hispanic Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century
/ Hispanic Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 20th century
/ HISTORY
/ Law
/ Relations with Hispanic Americans
/ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Political and social views
/ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Relations with Hispanic Americans
/ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882–1945
/ U.S.A
/ United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933
/ United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
/ United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
0816529027, 9780816529025
