Gringo Injustice : insider perspectives on police, gangs, and law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirandé, Alfredo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.

Discrimination in law enforcement.

Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.

Racial profiling in law enforcement.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

The recent mass shooting of 22 innocent people in El Paso by a lone White gunman looking to "Kill Mexicans" is not new. It is part of a long, bloody history of anti-Latina/o violence in the United States. Gringo Injustice brings this history to life, shedding critical light on the complex relationship between Latinas/os and the United States' legal and judicial system. Contributors with first-hand knowledge and experience, including former law enforcement officers, ex-gang members, attorneys, and community activists, share insider perspectives on the issues facing Latinas/os and initiate a critical dialogue on this neglected topic. Essays examine the unauthorized use of deadly force by police and patterned incidents of lynching, hate crimes, gang violence, and racial profiling. The book also highlights the hyper-criminalization of barrio youth and considers wide-ranging implications from the disproportionate imprisonment of Latinas/os. Gringo Injustice provides a comprehensive and powerful look into the Latina/o community's fraught history with law enforcement and the American judicial system. It is an essential reference for students and scholars interested in intersections between crime and communities of Color,and for use in Sociology, Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Chicano Studies, Criminology, and Criminal Justice.

Contents:

Part I. State-sanctioned violence. A history of anti-Latino state-sanctioned violence : executions, lynchings, and hate crimes / Maritza Pérez

Officer-involved shootings of Latinos : moving beyond the Black/White binary / Robert J. Durán

Interest-convergence theory and police use of deadly force on Latinos : a case study of three shootings / Roberto Rivera

Killing Ismael Mena : "The SWAT teams feared for their lives..." / Ernesto Vigil

Part II. The youth control complex. The street terrorism and enforcement act : a new chapter on the war on gangs / Alfredo Mirandé

Latino street gangs, La EME, and the Short Corridor Collective / Richard A. Alvarado

"Captives while free" : surveillance of Chicana/o youth in a San Diego Barrio / José S. Plascencia-Castillo

Hyper-criminalization : gang-affiliated Chicana teen mothers navigating third spaces / Katherine L. Maldonado

Part III. Race, citizenship, and the law. "A class apart" : The exclusion of Latinas/os from grand and petit juries / Aldredo Mirandé

Whiteness, Mexican appearance and the Fourth Amendment / Alfredo Mirandé.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

"You're Not Gonna Make It": Monica

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-02296-X

1-000-02266-8

0-429-29685-1

9780429296857

OCLC:

1120697724