Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index.
Contents
History and evolution of the U.S. Latino population -- The legally white, socially brown Latino -- Anti-Latino hate crimes -- Reactions to the Latino threat -- Racial profiling of U.S. Latinos by local police officers -- Abuses resulting from federal immigration enforcement efforts -- State and local police deprivations of Latino civil rights -- Inequality in the formation of grand and petit juries -- The rights of the limited-English-proficient accused in the criminal courts -- Latino victims of denials of due process -- How mass incarceration underdevelops Latino communities -- Appendix. List of cases, constitutions, treaties, statutes, and regulations.