2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive Embrace

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Overview ix
4. Introduction. On Being Brown in the Democratic Commons 1
5. Part I. A latina for the nation
6. 1. Sonia Sotomayor and “the Latino Question” 17
7. 2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive Embrace 45
8. Part II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor
9. 3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme 81
10. 4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of Debt 122
11. Coda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor and the Emergence of Latino Legal Thought 150
12. Acknowledgments 173
13. Notes 177
14. Selected Bibliography 195