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.

Introduction

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

PART I: State-Sanctioned Violence

1 A History of Anti-Latino State-Sanctioned Violence: Executions, Lynchings, and Hate Crimes

MARITZA PÉREZ

2 Officer-Involved Shootings of Latinos: Moving Beyond the Black/White Binary

ROBERT J. DURÁN

3 Interest-Convergence Theory and Police Use of Deadly Force on Latinos: A Case Study of Three Shootings

ROBERTO RIVERA

4 Killing Ismael Mena: “The SWAT Teams Feared for Their Lives…”

ERNESTO VIGIL

PART II: The Youth Control Complex

5 The Street Terrorism and Enforcement Act: A New Chapter on the War on Gangs

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

6 Latino Street Gangs, La EME, and the Short Corridor Collective

RICHARD A. ALVARADO

7 “Captives while Free”: Surveillance of Chicana/o Youth in a San Diego Barrio

JOSÉ S. PLASCENCIA-CASTILLO

8 Hyper-Criminalization: Gang-Affiliated Chicana Teen Mothers Navigating Third Spaces

KATHERINE L. MALDONADO

PART III: Race, Citizenship, and the Law

9 “A Class Apart”: The Exclusion of Latinos/as from Grand and Petit Juries

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ

10 Whiteness, Mexican Appearance and the Fourth Amendment

ALFREDO MIRANDÉ