Professors Hing and Johnson informed the REP of their soon-to-be-published article in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. A link to the full text and a summary are provided below.

Bill Ong Hing, Kevin R. Johnson, The Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006 and the Prospects for a New Civil Rights Movement, University of California, Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 96, 42 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. (TBD) (2007).

• Summary: “In the spring of 2006, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens and immigrants peacefully marched in the streets of cities across the country.” An analysis of these events opens the door to an explication of and engagement with the “formidable hurdles [that must be overcome] before the emergence of a new, multiracial civil rights movement.” Namely, “who will participate if there is to be a new civil rights movement? Will it be a Latina/o civil rights movement or a broader one including African Americans? Will the movement address more than immigrant rights? And just who will be its leaders?” Hing and Johnson deftly explicate the complexities of an effective movement for social justice drawing on both the successes of the past and current realities.