Steven W. Bender is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Planning and Strategic Initiatives at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from US History (NYU Press, 2015), Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings (NYU Press, 2012), Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (NYU Press, 2010), and Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press, 2003).

Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time. - Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol,University of Florida College of Law A hopeful and empowering challenge to those who work to transform American life. - Gerald Torres,University of Texas School of Law Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time. - Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol,University of Florida Is any society able to exist free of stereotypes? Steven Bender tackles the question head on as he dissects the cornucopia of Latino types, prototypes, and archetypes that populate our mendacious imagination. His answer takes us into the realms of politics, jurisprudence, and cartoons. It involves an attack on poverty, a strive for an equal, more honest educational system, and the 'reinvention' of the future tense in American English. Let Bender challenge your ignorance! - Ilan Stavans,author of The Hispanic Condition and On Borrowed Words Bender's got a noble goal: to show that the stereotypes Americans heap on Latino immigrants don't just make for rude conversation, they directly shape policy decisions. The book compellingly articulates just how deeply ingrained the images of lazy, thieving, drunkard Latinos and sexually voracious, fertile Latinas are in American culture (City Limits)

• Acknowledgments Preface1 The Con?uence of Stereotype and Law 2 Latinas/os in the American Imagination 3 Centering Latina/o Stereotypes in Those of Other Groups 4 Greasers and Gangsters: Latinas/os and Crime 5 Manana (Is Soon Enough for Me): Fertility and Welfare6 In the U.S.A., It's English or Adios Amigo: Latina/o Assimilation 7 One of the Smart Ones: Latina/o (Un)Intelligence 8 No Mexicans or Dogs Allowed: Subhumanity 9 Gringos in the Latina/o Imagination 10 Latinas/os in the Mirror: Intra-/Interethnic Glimpses 11 Eradicating Stereotypes: Community-Based Strategies of Media Counterspeech and Protest 12 Mi Familia as Counterspeech 13 Eradicating Stereotypes: The Collision of Legal Strategies with the First Amendment 14 Beyond Stereotype: Movement toward Social ChangeNotes Index About the Author

Steven W. Bender is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Planning and Strategic Initiatives at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from US History (NYU Press, 2015), Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings (NYU Press, 2012), Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (NYU Press, 2010), and Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press, 2003).

Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time. - Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol,University of Florida College of Law A hopeful and empowering challenge to those who work to transform American life. - Gerald Torres,University of Texas School of Law Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time. - Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol,University of Florida Is any society able to exist free of stereotypes? Steven Bender tackles the question head on as he dissects the cornucopia of Latino types, prototypes, and archetypes that populate our mendacious imagination. His answer takes us into the realms of politics, jurisprudence, and cartoons. It involves an attack on poverty, a strive for an equal, more honest educational system, and the 'reinvention' of the future tense in American English. Let Bender challenge your ignorance! - Ilan Stavans,author of The Hispanic Condition and On Borrowed Words Bender's got a noble goal: to show that the stereotypes Americans heap on Latino immigrants don't just make for rude conversation, they directly shape policy decisions. The book compellingly articulates just how deeply ingrained the images of lazy, thieving, drunkard Latinos and sexually voracious, fertile Latinas are in American culture (City Limits)

• Acknowledgments Preface1 The Con?uence of Stereotype and Law 2 Latinas/os in the American Imagination 3 Centering Latina/o Stereotypes in Those of Other Groups 4 Greasers and Gangsters: Latinas/os and Crime 5 Manana (Is Soon Enough for Me): Fertility and Welfare6 In the U.S.A., It's English or Adios Amigo: Latina/o Assimilation 7 One of the Smart Ones: Latina/o (Un)Intelligence 8 No Mexicans or Dogs Allowed: Subhumanity 9 Gringos in the Latina/o Imagination 10 Latinas/os in the Mirror: Intra-/Interethnic Glimpses 11 Eradicating Stereotypes: Community-Based Strategies of Media Counterspeech and Protest 12 Mi Familia as Counterspeech 13 Eradicating Stereotypes: The Collision of Legal Strategies with the First Amendment 14 Beyond Stereotype: Movement toward Social ChangeNotes Index About the Author

Steven W. Bender is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Planning and Strategic Initiatives at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from US History (NYU Press, 2015), Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings (NYU Press, 2012), Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (NYU Press, 2010), and Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press, 2003).

Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time. - Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol,University of Florida College of Law A hopeful and empowering challenge to those who work to transform American life. - Gerald Torres,University of Texas School of Law Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time. - Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol,University of Florida Is any society able to exist free of stereotypes? Steven Bender tackles the question head on as he dissects the cornucopia of Latino types, prototypes, and archetypes that populate our mendacious imagination. His answer takes us into the realms of politics, jurisprudence, and cartoons. It involves an attack on poverty, a strive for an equal, more honest educational system, and the 'reinvention' of the future tense in American English. Let Bender challenge your ignorance! - Ilan Stavans,author of The Hispanic Condition and On Borrowed Words Bender's got a noble goal: to show that the stereotypes Americans heap on Latino immigrants don't just make for rude conversation, they directly shape policy decisions. The book compellingly articulates just how deeply ingrained the images of lazy, thieving, drunkard Latinos and sexually voracious, fertile Latinas are in American culture (City Limits)

• Acknowledgments Preface1 The Con?uence of Stereotype and Law 2 Latinas/os in the American Imagination 3 Centering Latina/o Stereotypes in Those of Other Groups 4 Greasers and Gangsters: Latinas/os and Crime 5 Manana (Is Soon Enough for Me): Fertility and Welfare6 In the U.S.A., It's English or Adios Amigo: Latina/o Assimilation 7 One of the Smart Ones: Latina/o (Un)Intelligence 8 No Mexicans or Dogs Allowed: Subhumanity 9 Gringos in the Latina/o Imagination 10 Latinas/os in the Mirror: Intra-/Interethnic Glimpses 11 Eradicating Stereotypes: Community-Based Strategies of Media Counterspeech and Protest 12 Mi Familia as Counterspeech 13 Eradicating Stereotypes: The Collision of Legal Strategies with the First Amendment 14 Beyond Stereotype: Movement toward Social ChangeNotes Index About the Author