Behind bars
Subtitle: Latino/as and prison in the United States
By: edited by Suzanne Oboler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780230619494; 9780230619241
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Viviendo en el olvido; title: " : behind bars : Latino/as and prison in the United States / Suzanne Oboler; title: Latinas/os and U.S. prisons : trends and challenges / José Luis Morín; title: Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández; title: "Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas" : chicanos, independentistas, and the prison rebellions in Leavenworth, 1969-72 / Alan Eladio Gómez; title: The racial politics of youth crime / Victor M. Rios; title: Caught in the net : language and cultural resistance among Latina adolescents in juvenile detention / 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 Victoria 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 Alejandro Sorell; title: "Troubadour of justice" : an interview with raúlrsalinas / Alan Eladio Gómez; title: Peltier I/peltier II / raúlrsalinas; title: "Estoy como cuero de jicotea, 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: Toward a Pinta/o human rights? New and old strategies for Chicana/o prisoner research and activism / B.V. Olguín.