Behind bars
Subtitle: Latino/as and prison in the United States
By: edited by Suzanne Oboler.
Contributors: Oboler, Suzanne.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York City, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Hispanic American prisoners -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vivir en el olvido : behind bars-Latino/as and prison in the United States / Suzanne Oboler; title: Latinas/os and US prisons : trends and challenges / José Luis Morín; title: Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David M. Hernández; title: 'Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas' : chicanos, independentistas, and the prison rebellions in Leavenworth, 1969-1972 / Alan Eladio Gómez; title: The racial politics of youth crime / Victor M. Ríos; title: Latinas in U.S. juvenile detention : turning adversity to advantage / Laurie Schaffner; title: Lost votes, lost bodies, lost jobs : the effects of mass incarceration on Latino civic engagement / Juan Cartagena; title: Checkpoint in Montebello : inciting riots, up against the wall and earning the right to be on the street with signs that say, "retén" / Mercedes Castillo; title: The interpreter as a bridge : language issues in Chicago's Cook County jail / Laura E. Garcia; title: Interpreting after the largest ice raid in U.S. history : a personal account / Erik Camayd-Freixas; title: Waste is a terrible thing to mind / Dicxon Valderruten; title: Closing the gap : mentoring Latina students to reach out to incarcerated Latinas / Marcia Esparza; title: Latino visual culture behind bars : artistic inspiration and redemption within the bowels of despair / Victor A. Sorell; title: "I was armed with my dignity intact." An interview with Raúlrsalinas / Alan Eladio Gómez; title: Peltier I ; peltier II / Raúlrsalinas; title: "Estoy como cuero de jicotéa, que ni las balas me pasan" : an interview with Rafael Cancel Miranda / Gabriel Torres Rivera; title: La alegría de tener vergüenza / Rafael Cancel Miranda; title: Chicana(o)/Latina(o) prisoners : ethical and methodological considerations, collaborative research methods and case studies / Juanita Díaz-Cotto; title: Chicano convicts, human rights regimes and a new paradigm for prisoner rights activism today / B. V. Olguín.