In the late 1960s, Mexican Americans throughout the Southwest substituted a Chicano self-conception for a White one. Viewing that dramatic shift through the window of two criminal trials arising in the heavily Mexican American area of East Los Angeles, Ian Haney Lopez argues that police and judicial mistreatment of the community contributed to the formation of a nonwhite Chicano identity.

This presentation is given in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study Interdisciplinary Conference, "Territories and Boundaries: Geographies of Latinidad" held October 28 - 30, 1999.

Sponsored by: The Center for Advanced Study

In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cinema Studies Program, College of Communications, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Law, Department of Anthropology, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese , Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, La Casa Cultural Latina, Latina/o Studies Program and Women's Studies Program

Photo: Oscar Castillo, from the PBS series "Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement."