Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 (Volume 7) (Latinos in American Society and Culture) Paperback - 1999
by Escobar, Edward J
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- Title Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 (Volume 7) (Latinos in American Society and Culture)
- Author Escobar, Edward J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition &
- Condition New
- Pages 372
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 1999-09-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0520213351
- ISBN 9780520213357 / 0520213351
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.92 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.34 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Police - California - Los Angeles - History, Police-community relations - California -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98023322
- Dewey Decimal Code 365.979
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From the rear cover
In this study, Edward J. Escobar examines the history of the LAPD and the Chicano community from the turn of the century, when the police first became a professional organization, to the era of the Zoot Suit riots. Escobar shows how police increasingly characterized Chicanos as a criminal element, and how the assumption of Mexican Americans that the police were deliberately targeting them grew. As Escobar demonstrates, this troubled relationship prompted Mexican Americans to forge a new political identity, even as the LAPD used fear of minority crime to increase its autonomy. This combination of a politicized minority and an intransigent police force would eventually contribute to other uprisings in Los Angeles, including the 1965 Watts riots and the violence that erupted in 1992 following the acquittal ofLAPD officers accused of beating Rodney King.