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Policing shaped Latinx identity and resistance throughout history.
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Policed

A Latinx History of State Violence

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    26 January 2027

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Summary

How policing has fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience.

The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by experiences of criminalization and violence at the hands of law enforcement. Marisol LeBrón argues that policing has left an indelible mark on Latinx communities across the country and has come to shape our understanding of what it means to be Latinx.

Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, Policed

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780520388321
ISBN-10:0520388321
Author:Marisol LeBron
Publisher:University of California Press
Imprint:University of California Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:26 January 2027
Dimensions:140mm x 216mm
Series:American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
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Policed by Marisol LeBron - ISBN: 9780520388321
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About The Author

Marisol LeBron

Marisol LeBrón is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua, as well as coeditor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm.

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