%0 Journal Article
%T Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation
%A Frances Negr¨®n-Muntaner
%J Journal of Transnational American Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%X This essay explores how the 2009 confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor once again transformed the process to become a Supreme Court Justice as new political fault lines reached the nation¡¯s highest court. Although the majority of political supporters emphasized Sotomayor¡¯s individual and professional qualifications as the crucial factors that made her confirmable, what ultimately became confirmed through her appointment was the increasing, if uncomfortable, weight of Latino identity as a relevant category of social difference in contemporary American politics. This essay engages with the confirmation process¡¯s discarded and expanded plotlines to produce an acceptable story, in order to understand Sotomayor¡¯s appointment not simply as the culmination of Latino achievement or collective empowerment but as a way to assess the current price of the ticket for Latino political incorporation.
%K Sonia Sotomayor
%K Supreme Court
%K Justice
%K Latino
%K Politics
%K Latino Political Incorporation
%U https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/11633