Ian Haney López interviewed on MSNBC, January 13, 2014
“In order for people to have a path out of poverty, and in order for the middle class to thrive, we need a government that’s geared towards helping the middle class, not a government geared towards helping the rich. But in order to have that, we need to stop being divided by race. And how are we being divided by race? We’re being divided by race by a new sort of racial rhetoric that operates in code.”

Ian Haney-López book reviewed in the Arkansas Times, December 23, 2013

From Wallace to Nixon and Reagan and beyond, the book describes the transformation of Southern politics and the Republican Party, helped mightily by racism, though a more gentle form than the violent white supremacist variety.

Ian Haney-López writes for Salon.com, December 22, 2013

Wallace was far from the only Southern politician to veer to the right on race in the 1950s. The mounting pressure for black equality destabilized a quiescent political culture that had assumed white supremacy was unassailable, putting pressure on all public persons to stake out their position for or against integration.

Ian Haney Lopez quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2013

Removing race-based restrictions from fellowships and financial aid awards was more common in the 1970s and 1980s, said Ian Haney Lopez…. “It’s important … for Columbia University symbolically to amend this fellowship,” Haney Lopez said, in what he described as part of an ongoing effort to correct a legacy of bias in the United States.

Ian Haney-Lopez quoted in ProPublica, March 26, 2013

“The court seems eager to weigh in on race,” said Ian Haney-Lopez, a constitutional scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. “I think we are about to see an even more aggressive stance, not just against affirmative action but limiting anti-discrimination measures themselves.”

Ian Haney-Lopez quoted in ProPublica, March 18, 2013

“I think that is incredibly important that people realize that today’s proponents of colorblindness pretend that they are the heirs to Thurgood Marshall and John Marshall Harlan,” he said. “But that is a lie. They are the heirs of Southern resistance to integration. And the colorblindness arguments that they use come directly from the Southern efforts to defeat Brown v. Board of Education.”

Ian Haney-Lopez cited in Boulder Daily Camera, December 16, 2012

Ian F. Haney Lpez, a writer and professor of race and constitutional law at the University of California Berkeley, wrote about the idea of abolishing the concept of racial structures completely. In the beginning of the 21st Century, Lpez wrote “Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge.” In one section, “The Social Construction of Race,” he not only concludes that the thought of race is a complete social construct, but that “by choosing to resist racial constructions, we may emancipate ourselves and our children.”

Ian Haney-Lopez quoted in TIME, October 5, 2012

“There are no genetic characteristics possessed by all blacks but not by non-blacks,” wrote University of California at Berkeley law professor Ian Haney Lopez in the landmark 1993 essay The Social Construction of Race. Lopez concludes: “Race is a social construction.”

Ian Haney-Lopez quoted in TIME, October 5, 2012

“There are no genetic characteristics possessed by all blacks but not by non-blacks,” wrote University of California at Berkeley law professor Ian Haney Lopez in the landmark 1993 essay The Social Construction of Race. Lopez concludes: “Race is a social construction.”

Ian Haney-Lopez writes for Salon.com, September 29, 2012

Would a hypothetical Mitt Romero have an easier chance of being elected president than a Mitt Romney? The real Romney seemed to suggest that the answer would be yes. This claim came to light with the video that parted the curtain on Romney’s speech to high-end donors at a fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla. While most focused on Romney’s disparaging comments about 47 percent of the country, in another part Romney lamented that he lacks Mexican heritage.