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Ian Haney López is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the area of racial justice in American law.
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Haney López has published his newest book Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. 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. 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.
His previous books include Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice, 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. 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, and co-edited After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and A New Reconstruction.
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.
He was a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., Fellowship, 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.