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Written by insiders with direct and personal knowledge and experience,
Gringo Injustice offers a unique, detailed look at the recent and unfolding relationship between Latinos in the U.S. and the legal and judicial systems. The authors critically examine why there is so little public concern and provide timely policy recommendations.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
Written by insiders with direct and personal knowledge and experience, Gringo Injustice offers a unique, detailed look at the recent and unfolding relationship between Latinos in the U.S. and the legal and judicial systems. The authors critically examine why there is so little public concern and provide timely policy recommendations.
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Gringo Injustice is a path-breaking collection, destined to be the definitive resource on Latinos/as in the criminal justice system. Combining a range of sociological and legal frameworks with "insider" experiences, the book casts new light on the dual system of justice that produces some of the most pressing challenges facing Latinos today. Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University
Alfredo Mirandé and the book's contributors have produced an audacious volume of theoretically grounded and empirically driven work treating each with lucidity and grace. Rodolfo D. Torres, University of California, Irvine, and coauthor of Capitalism and Critique: Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics.
Books on the criminal "justice" system have typically focused on African Americans. Alfredo Mirandé’s Gringo Justice is a wonderful correction to this trend. The chapters are powerfully written by scholars, activists, lawyers, and historians and address various justice issues affecting Latinos (e.g., police shootings of unarmed Latinos, projects to attempt to curb police violence against Latinos, inter-ethnic conflict in prisons, racialized anti-gang policies, and surveillance). I highly recommend this book and will use it myself in my classes. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, author of Racism without Racists
