Being Brown

Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question

By: Lazaro Lima

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Paperback | 12 November 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the countryâs first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justiceâs rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayorâs confirmation appeared to signal the greater acceptance and inclusion of Latinosâ"the nationâs largest âminority majorityââ"the uncritical embrace of her status as a âpossibility modelâ and icon paradoxically erased the fact that her success was due to civil rights policies and safeguards that no longer existed.

Being Brown analyzes Sotomayorâs story of success and accomplishment, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, in order to ask: What do we lose in democratic practice when we allow symbolic inclusion to supplant the work of meaningful political enfranchisement? In a historical moment of resurgent racism, unrelenting Latino bashing, and previously unimaginable âblood and soilâ Nazism, Being Brown explains what we stand to lose when we allow democratic values to be trampled for the sake of political expediency, and demonstrates how understanding âthe Latino questionâ can fortify democratic practice.

Being Brown provides the historical vocabulary for understanding why the Latino body politic is central to the countryâs future and why Sonia Sotomayorâs biography provides an important window into understanding America, and the countryâs largest minority majority, at this historical juncture. In the process, Being Brown counters âalternative factsâ with historical precision and ethical clarity to invigorate the best of democratic practice at a historical moment when we need it most.

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"Being Brown reads, and feels, like the right book at the right time. The dream of the 'Brown Democratic Commons' that drives so much of Lazaro Lima's thought, and his hope, in this transformative study has never felt so possible, and so impossible, at the same time."

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