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Race, police, and the making of a political identity : Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 /

In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Escobar, Edward J., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
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