| Contents | Law and History Review, 21.1

Vol. 21 , No. 1

Spring 2003

Editorial Staff

In This Issue vii

Articles

"The Jurisprudence of the Arrêts": Marital Union, Civil Society, and State Formation in France, 1550-1650
Sarah Hanley	1

Collisions, Prohibitions, and the Admiralty Court in Seventeenth-Century London
George F. Steckley	41

The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1924-1965
Mae M. Ngai	69

Forum. Whiteness and Others: Mexican Americans and American Law

"Another White Race": Mexican Americans and the Paradox of Whiteness in Jury Selection
Clare Sheridan	109

Brown over "Other White": Mexican-American's Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in School Desegregation Lawsuits
Steven H. Wilson	145

Comment

Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness
Ariela J. Gross	195

Response

Cultural Racism and the Construction of Identity
Clare Sheridan	207
Tracking the Shifting Racial Identity of Mexican Americans
Steven H. Wilson	211

Book Reviews

Controlling Misbehavior in England -- Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
reviewed by Ben R. McRee	215

Rhetoric and law in Early Modern Europe -- Victoria Khan and Lorna Hutson, editors,
and The Writing of Royalism -- Robert Wilcher
reviewed by Allen D. Boyer	217

The Law's Two Bodies: Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History --John H. Baker
reviewed by Jonathan Rose	221

Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718-1800 --Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton
reviewed by Joshua Getzler	223

Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England --Ruth Wallis Herndon
reviewed by Katherine Hermes	224

America's Jeffersonian Experiment: Remaking State Constitutions, 8820-1850 -- Laura J. Scalia
reviewed by Cynthia Cumfer	226

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America -- Edward J. Balleisen
reviewed by John Majewski	228

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination -- Karen Halttunen
reviewed by Elizabeth Dale	230

The Lochner Court, Myth and Reality: Substantive Due Process from the 1890s to the 1930s -- Michael J. Phillips
reviewed by David E. Bernstein	231

A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America --James H. Madison
reviewed by Christopher Waldrep	233

Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida's Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era --Vivian M. L. Miller
reviewed by Lisa Cardyn	235

Community Denied: The Wring Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism --James Hoopes
reviewed by Christopher Shannon	238

The Juvenile Court and the Progressives -- Victoria Getis
reviewed by David S. Tanenhaus	240

To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and the Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, 1855-1860 -- Richard C. Lindberg
reviewed by Andrew Cohen	241

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