Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity - Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945

About the author

Edward J. Escobar is Associate Professor in the Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and History at Arizona State University, and coeditor of Forging a Community: The Latino Experience in Northwest Indiana, 1919-1975 (1987).

Summary

In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. This book examines the history of the relationship between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Mexican American community from the turn of the century to the era of the Zoot Suit Riots.

Product details

• Authors: Edward J. Escobar, Escobar Edward J.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1999
• EAN: 9780520213357
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21335-7
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Latinos in American Society an; Latinos in American Society and Culture; Latinos in American Society an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Local History, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, US West, Social discrimination and social justice