Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946-
Published: University of California Press, 1999
Subjects: History |
California and the West |
Latin American History |
Latino Studies |
Social Problems |
Politics |
Californian and Western History |
Urban Studies |
Criminology |
CriminologyPublisher's Description: 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. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . .
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