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Race, police, and the making of a political identity : Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945
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- Creator
- Edward J. Escobar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 358 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520213357, 0520213351, 0520213343, 058508145X, 9780520920781, 9780585081458, 9780520213340, 0520920783
- OCLC
- ocm44965755, ocm39256772, on1149434207
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-343) and index.
- Introduction: Race and criminal justice -- Beginnings: 1900-1920 -- The LAPD and Mexican workers, 1900-1920 -- The LAPD and the revolutionaries -- The LAPD and Mexican American workers, 1920-1940 -- Theories and statistics of Mexican criminality -- Police misconduct and community protest -- Crime fighters and Zoot Suitors -- Facts and origins of the Zoot-Suit hysteria -- "More sinned against than sinning" -- The riots and their aftermath -- A statue to the unknown Zooter