Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nativists and Immigration Law to 1924 -- 3. Mexican Restriction Debates, 1924-1930 -- 4. Good Neighbors and New Dealers -- 5. Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights -- 6. The Andrade…
The book recounts how the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) lobbied President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to essentially circumvent the federal court decision in Andrade (1935), which ruled that the Mexican petitioners were not "free white person[s]." The decision p…
"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 …