Gringo Injustice

Alfredo Mirandé, a native of Mexico City and the father of three children, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is a practicing attorney who previously taught at the Texas Tech University School of Law. Mirandé received a BS in social science from Illinois State University, MA and PhD degrees in sociology from the University of Nebraska, and a JD from Stanford University. Mirandé's teaching and research interests are in Chicano sociology; masculinity; constitutional law; civil rights; and the relationship among law, race, class, and gender. He has also published numerous journal articles on sociology, law, and ethnic studies and is the author of The Age of Crisis; La Chicana: The Mexican American Woman (coauthored with Evangelina Enríquez); The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective; Gringo Justice; Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture; The Stanford Law Chronicles: ‘Doin' Time on the Farm; Jalos USA: Transnational Community and Identity; and Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community.

Gringo Injustice is a path-breaking collection, destined to be the definitive resource on Latinos/as in the criminal justice system. Combining a range of sociological and legal frameworks with "insider" experiences, the book casts new light on the dual system of justice that produces some of the most pressing challenges facing Latinos today. Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State UniversityAlfredo Mirandé and the book's contributors have produced an audacious volume of theoretically grounded and empirically driven work treating each with lucidity and grace. Rodolfo D. Torres, University of California, Irvine, and coauthor of Capitalism and Critique: Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics. Books on the criminal "justice" system have typically focused on African Americans. Alfredo Mirandé’s Gringo Justice is a wonderful correction to this trend. The chapters are powerfully written by scholars, activists, lawyers, and historians and address various justice issues affecting Latinos (e.g., police shootings of unarmed Latinos, projects to attempt to curb police violence against Latinos, inter-ethnic conflict in prisons, racialized anti-gang policies, and surveillance). I highly recommend this book and will use it myself in my classes. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, author of Racism without Racists

• IntroductionALFREDO MIRANDÉPART I: State-Sanctioned Violence1 A History of Anti-Latino State-Sanctioned Violence: Executions, Lynchings, and Hate CrimesMARITZA PÉREZ2 Officer-Involved Shootings of Latinos: Moving Beyond the Black/White BinaryROBERT J. DURÁN3 Interest-Convergence Theory and Police Use of Deadly Force on Latinos: A Case Study of Three ShootingsROBERTO RIVERA4 Killing Ismael Mena: “The SWAT Teams Feared for Their Lives…”ERNESTO VIGILPART II: The Youth Control Complex5 The Street Terrorism and Enforcement Act: A New Chapter on the War on GangsALFREDO MIRANDÉ6 Latino Street Gangs, La EME, and the Short Corridor CollectiveRICHARD A. ALVARADO7 “Captives while Free”: Surveillance of Chicana/o Youth in a San Diego BarrioJOSÉ S. PLASCENCIA-CASTILLO8 Hyper-Criminalization: Gang-Affiliated Chicana Teen Mothers Navigating Third SpacesKATHERINE L. MALDONADOPART III: Race, Citizenship, and the Law9 “A Class Apart”: The Exclusion of Latinos/as from Grand and Petit JuriesALFREDO MIRANDÉ10 Whiteness, Mexican Appearance and the Fourth AmendmentALFREDO MIRANDÉ