To speak to the 1929 law, Gorman presented the testimony of Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at UCLA. Professor Lytle Hernández recounted the anti-Mexican sentiment pervading America during what historians describe as the “tribal ’20s,” including the “Juan Crow” regime, a racialized system of legal oppression of Latinos in the U.S. mirroring Jim Crow laws targeting Black Americans in the south.
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To speak to the 1929 law, Gorman presented the testimony of Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at UCLA. Professor Lytle Hernández recounted the anti-Mexican sentiment pervading America during what historians describe as the “tribal ’20s,” including the “Juan Crow” regime, a racialized system of legal oppression of Latinos in the U.S. mirroring Jim Crow laws targeting Black Americans in the south.
