Gringo Injustice

Insider Perspectives on Police, Gangs, and Law
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-27606-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mirandé, Alfredo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

PART I: State-Sanctioned Violence

1 A History of Anti-Latino State-Sanctioned Violence: Executions, Lynchings, and Hate Crimes

MARITZA PÉREZ

2 Officer-Involved Shootings of Latinos: Moving Beyond the Black/White Binary

ROBERT J. DURÁN

3 Interest-Convergence Theory and Police Use of Deadly Force on Latinos: A Case Study of Three Shootings

ROBERTO RIVERA

4 Killing Ismael Mena: “The SWAT Teams Feared for Their Lives…”

ERNESTO VIGIL

PART II: The Youth Control Complex

5 The Street Terrorism and Enforcement Act: A New Chapter on the War on Gangs

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

6 Latino Street Gangs, La EME, and the Short Corridor Collective

RICHARD A. ALVARADO

7 “Captives while Free”: Surveillance of Chicana/o Youth in a San Diego Barrio

JOSÉ S. PLASCENCIA-CASTILLO

8 Hyper-Criminalization: Gang-Affiliated Chicana Teen Mothers Navigating Third Spaces

KATHERINE L. MALDONADO

PART III: Race, Citizenship, and the Law

9 “A Class Apart”: The Exclusion of Latinos/as from Grand and Petit Juries

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

10 Whiteness, Mexican Appearance and the Fourth Amendment

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

Über Autor(innen)

Alfredo Mirandé, a native of Mexico City and the father of three children, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is a practicing attorney who previously taught at the Texas Tech University School of Law. Mirandé received a BS in social science from Illinois State University, MA and PhD degrees in sociology from the University of Nebraska, and a JD from Stanford University. Mirandé's teaching and research interests are in Chicano sociology; masculinity; constitutional law; civil rights; and the relationship among law, race, class, and gender. He has also published numerous journal articles on sociology, law, and ethnic studies and is the author of The Age of Crisis; La Chicana: The Mexican American Woman (coauthored with Evangelina Enríquez); The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective; Gringo Justice; Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture; The Stanford Law Chronicles: ‘Doin' Time on the Farm; Jalos USA: Transnational Community and Identity; and Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community.