Behind Bars [electronic resource] : Latino/as and Prison in the United States /
Oboler, S.editor.
This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls prisons, and the post incarceration experience.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Viviendo en el olvido-- " : behind bars : Latino/as and prison in the United States / Suzanne Oboler -- Latinas/os and U.S. prisons : trends and challenges / José Luis Morín -- Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández -- "Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas" : chicanos, independentistas, and the prison rebellions in Leavenworth, 1969-72 / Alan Eladio Gómez -- The racial politics of youth crime / Victor M. Rios -- Caught in the net : language and cultural resistance among Latina adolescents in juvenile detention / Laurie Schaffner -- Lost votes, lost bodies, lost jobs : the effects of mass incarceration on Latino civic engagement / Juan Cartagena -- Checkpoint in Montebello : inciting riots, up against the wall, and earning the right to be on the street with signs that say "retén" / Mercedes Victoria Castillo -- The interpreter as a bridge : language issues in Chicago's Cook County jail / Laura E. Garcia -- Interpreting after the largest ICE raid in U.S. history : a personal account / Erik Camayd-Freixas -- Waste is a terrible thing to mind / Dicxon Valderruten -- Closing the gap : mentoring Latina students to reach out to incarcerated Latinas / Marcia Esparza -- Latino visual culture behind bars : artistic inspiration and redemption within the bowels of despair / Victor Alejandro Sorell -- "Troubadour of justice" : an interview with raúlrsalinas / Alan Eladio Gómez -- Peltier I/peltier II / raúlrsalinas -- "Estoy como cuero de jicotea, que ni las balas me pasan" : an interview with Rafael Cancel Miranda / Gabriel Torres Rivera -- La alegría de tener vergüenza / Rafael Cancel Miranda -- Chicana(o)/Latina(o) prisoners : ethical and methodological considerations, collaborative research methods, and case studies / Juanita Díaz-Cotto -- Toward a Pinta/o human rights? New and old strategies for Chicana/o prisoner research and activism / B.V. Olguín.
This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls prisons, and the post incarceration experience.
Ethnicity.
Criminology.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Ethnicity Studies.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Latin American Culture.
Prison and Punishment.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.