Brown and Blue
Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025
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Brown and Blue
Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025
About this book
This book offers a sweeping history of Mexican American interactions with law enforcement and the criminal justice system in the US Southwest. Looking primarily at Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, Brown and Blue tells a complex story: Violent, often racist acts committed by police against Mexican American people sparked protests demanding reform, and criminal justice authorities sometimes responded positively to these protests with measures such as recruiting Mexican Americans into local police forces and altering training procedures at police academies.
Brian D. Behnken demonstrates the central role that the struggle for police reform played in the twentieth-century Chicano movement, and the ways its relevance continues to the present. By linking social activism and law enforcement, Behnken illuminates how the policing issues of today developed and what reform remains to be done.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Terms
- Introduction
- 1 Pachucos and Police: Mexican Americans and Law Enforcement at Midcentury
- 2 Like Killing a Dog: The Struggle to End Police Violence against Chicano Movement Participants
- 3 Blood on Their Hands: The Chicano Response to Police Violence against Non-Movement Mexican Americans
- 4 Cruel and Unusual: Strange Cases of Abuse, Activism, and Reform
- 5 Custodial Situations: Mexican Americans Confront the Carceral State
- 6 A Better Day Coming? The Chicano Movement and Local-Level Criminal Justice Reform
- 7 The Hidden Eighties: Protest and Retrenchment in a Militant Decade
- 8 No Justice, No Peace: The Problem of Policing from the 1990s to Today
- Conclusion
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index