| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ian F. Haney López. Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 324. $27.95.

Legal scholar Ian F. Haney López's book is a valuable and provocative work that provides a new understanding of the role of race in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on events in Los Angeles, Haney López argues that Chicano militants responded to "common sense racism" by adopting a nonwhite racial identity. He defines common sense racism as part of "a complex set of background ideas that people draw upon but rarely question in their daily affairs" (pp. 6–7). This type of racism is routine behavior that without premeditation or intent reinforces racial inequalities and hierarchies. Haney López uses a broad array of secondary sources to trace the development of common sense racism. He reviews familiar territory, touching on nineteenth-century racial attitudes and stereotypes, Manifest Destiny and the Mexican American War, the white response to early twentieth-century Mexican immigration, the zoot suit hysteria of the 1940s, and the entrenched and subtle forms of anti-Mexican racism that prevailed into the 1950s.

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