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7 Tex. Hisp. J.L. & Pol'y 59 (2001)
But You're Not a Dirty Mexican: Internalized Oppression, Latinos & Law

handle is hein.journals/thlp7 and id is 65 raw text is: BUT You'RE NOT A DIRTY MEXICAN: INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION, LATINOS & LAW* LAURA M. PADILLA** SUMMARY I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 61 II. INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION AND RACISM ......................................................................... 65 A. Working Definitions of Internalized Oppression and Racism ..................................... 65 B. Internalized Racism and Latinos ................................................................................. 67 III. LATINOS' INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION AS REVEALED IN THE LAW .................................... 73 A . P roposition 187 ............................................................................................................... 74 B . P roposition 209 ............................................................................................................... 81 C. P roposition 227 ............................................................................................................... 85 D. Cordova v. Vaughn Municipal School District .......................................................... 93 E . Sum m ary .......................................................................................................................... 98 IV. RE-IMAGINING LATINO IDENTITY IN THE ABSENCE OF INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION AND RACISM ...................................................................................................... 99 V . CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................................... 113 * The title of this article is derived from a conversation in which a college classmate was delivering a harangue, blaming the evils of the world on undocumented Mexican immigrants. I interrupted, alerting him that I was Mexican American. He hesitated momentarily, said But you're not a dirty Mexican, and continued his vitriolic diatribe. ** Laura M. Padilla is a Professor of Law at California Western School of Law. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Stanford. Prof. Padilla would like to thank her Kellogg Group XV advisor, Roberto Chen6, for inspiring her to write this article. He articulated the concept of internalized oppression for her, a concept she had been familiar with all her life but could not name. The author is particularly thankful to participants of the Third Annual Latino Critical Race Theory Conference in Miami, Florida, for their feedback on portions of this paper presented in a panel on May 8, 1998. The presented portion has been published as an essay cited as Laura M. Padilla, Social and Legal Repercussions ofLatinos' Colonized Mentality, 53 U. MlAhi L. REv. 769 (1999).

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