| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"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 1/Peltier 2 / 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 |
| Summary |
Prisons and the multiple ways that Latino/as have developed to combat the pervasive inhumane acts visited on them are the core of this anthology. Its combination of scholarly presentations, interviews, poetry, visual arts, and narratives of the inmates' lived experiences situates the realities of prison and its aftermath in the discussion about the ideals of individual freedom and rights. The authors highlight the attempts to normalize the systematic dehumanization of incarcerated Latino/as by "walling off" and sanitizing the urgent problems their very presence inevitably poses. This book argues for the societal responsibility to uphold the dignity of all peoples, irrespective of their histories and status in their respective societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Hispanic American prisoners -- United States
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration
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Hispanic American prisoners
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Latinamerikaner -- Förenta staterna.
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Fångar -- sociala förhållanden -- Förenta staterna.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oboler, Suzanne.
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| LC no. |
2009021747 |
| ISBN |
9780230101470 |
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023010147X |
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9786612742279 |
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6612742275 |
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