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Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 (Latino in American Society and Culture)
Race Police and the Making of a Political Identity Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department 19001945 - Latino in American Society and Culture
Author: Edward J. Escobar
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, joined by civilians and even police offic...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520213340
ISBN-10: 0520213343
Publication Date: 9/1/1999
Pages: 358
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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