Ian Haney-López

Ian Haney López is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law[1] at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the area of racial justice in American law.

Life

Haney López has published his newest book Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.[2] The book traces the role of racial demagoguery in American politics in creating hostility towards liberalism and in facilitating the return of U.S. robber baron era policies. In 2011 and 2012 Haney Lopez gave a series of talks on this topic in Oregon and New York.[3] Sherrilyn Ifill, currently head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, named Haney Lopez's New York talk as the "Best lecture on race and the law" for 2011.[4]

His previous books include Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice,[5] which documents how police violence helped racialize and radicalize Mexican-American activists during the late 1960s, leading to the development of a non-white Chicano identity. Haney Lopez is best known for White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race.[6] This classic book explores judicial efforts to interpret the legal requirement, utilized until 1952, that one be a "white person" in order to gain naturalized citizenship. He also edited the anthology Race, Law and Society, [7] and co-edited After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and A New Reconstruction.[8]

He has published a number of frequently cited articles in major law journals, which include:

His work has been included in more than two dozen anthologies and encyclopedias.[1]

He was a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., Fellowship,[14] which recognizes “scholars, writers, and artists whose work contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.”

Haney López was born and raised in Hawaii and currently resides in Berkeley, California.

Dog-whistle politics

López has described Ronald Reagan as "blowing a dog whistle" when the candidate told stories about "Cadillac-driving 'welfare queens' and 'strapping young bucks' buying T-bone steaks with food stamps" while he was campaigning for the presidency.[15][16][17] He argues that such rhetoric pushes middle-class white Americans to vote against their economic self-interest in order to punish "undeserving minorities" who, they believe, are receiving too much public assistance at their expense. According to López, conservative middle-class whites, convinced by powerful economic interests that minorities are the enemy, supported politicians who promised to curb illegal immigration and crack down on crime but inadvertently also voted for policies that favor the extremely rich, such as slashing taxes for top income brackets, giving corporations more regulatory control over industry and financial markets, union busting, cutting pensions for future public employees, reducing funding for public schools, and retrenching the social welfare state. He argues that these same voters cannot link rising inequality which has impacted their lives to the policy agendas they support, which resulted in a massive transfer of wealth to the top 1% of the population since the 1980s.[18]

Works

  • White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. NYU Press. 1 August 1997. ISBN 978-0-8147-5137-4.
  • Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Harvard University Press. 1 July 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03826-4.
  • Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Wrecked the Middle Class. Oxford University Press. February 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-996427-7.
Anthologies
  • Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic (2000). "The Social Construction of Race". Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. Temple University Press. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-1-56639-714-8.

References

  1. 1 2 University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. "Faculty Profile: Ian F. Haney López". Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Dog Whistle Politics : How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Mortensen, Camilla. "Dog-Whistle Racism". Eugene Weekly. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Ifill, Sherrilyn. "Race and the Law: The Best and Worst of 2011". The Root. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Haney López, Ian (2004). Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674038266.
  6. ↑ Haney López, Ian (2006). White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York, NY: NYU Press. ISBN 0814736947.
  7. ↑ Haney López, Ian (2007). Race, law, and society. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754626619.
  8. ↑ Haney López, Ian (2008). After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and A New Reconstruction. New York, NY: NYU Press. ISBN 9780814727614.
  9. ↑ Haney López, Ian (December 2012). "Intentional Blindness". NYU Law Review. 87 (6): 1779. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  10. ↑ Haney López, Ian (February 2007). ""A Nation of Minorities": Race, Ethnicity, and Reactionary Colorblindness". Stanford Law Review. 59 (4): 985. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Haney López, Ian (1999). "Institutional Racism: Judicial Conduct and a New Theory of Racial Discrimination". Yale Law Journal. 109: 1717. doi:10.2307/797509.
  12. ↑ Haney López, Ian (October 9, 2010). "Post-Racial Racism: Racial Stratification and Mass Incarceration in the Age of Obama". California Law Review. 89: 1023.
  13. ↑ Haney López, Ian (2001). "Protest, Repression, and Race: Legal Violence and the Chicano Movement". University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 150: 205. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  14. ↑ Cohen, Andrew. "Ian Haney López Wins Award for Research Promoting Integration". University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  15. ↑ Haney López, Ian (2014). Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-996427-7.
  16. ↑ Full Show: Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race, Part I. Moyers & Company, February 28, 2014.
  17. ↑ Yao, Kevin (November 9, 2015). "A Coded Political Mantra". Berkeley Political Review: UC Berkeley’s Only Nonpartisan Political Magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  18. ↑ Full Show: Ian Haney López on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race, Part I. Moyers & Company, February 28, 2014. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class Archived 2014-12-18 at the Wayback Machine.. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 0-19-996427-0
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