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The Myth of the Melting Pot: Race and Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century Los Angeles The Myth of the Melting Pot: Race and Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
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Immigration and Backlash Immigration and Backlash
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The Paradox of Social Reform The Paradox of Social Reform
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Persisting Segregation during the Postwar Boom Persisting Segregation during the Postwar Boom
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The Rearticulation of Race Relations: Civil Rights and the Rise of Colorblind Racism The Rearticulation of Race Relations: Civil Rights and the Rise of Colorblind Racism
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The Chicano Civil Rights Movement The Chicano Civil Rights Movement
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White Racial Backlash White Racial Backlash
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Neoliberalism and Mass Arrest Policing Neoliberalism and Mass Arrest Policing
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The Field of Crime Control in Post-Civil Rights America The Field of Crime Control in Post-Civil Rights America
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The Latino Crime Threat: Los Angeles’s War on Gangs as Colorblind Racism The Latino Crime Threat: Los Angeles’s War on Gangs as Colorblind Racism
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Criminal Sentencing Criminal Sentencing
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Operation Hammer (1988–1991) Operation Hammer (1988–1991)
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The “Internal War on Terrorism” (2002–2008) The “Internal War on Terrorism” (2002–2008)
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Recasting the Suppression Method (2003–2009) Recasting the Suppression Method (2003–2009)
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Conclusion Conclusion
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1 The Latino Crime Threat: A Century of Race, Marginality, and Public Policy in Los Angeles
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Published:December 2013
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This chapter investigates how poverty, marginality, and gangs have been long-standing features of Los Angeles's Eastside barrios—an area where most of the Chicano gangs originate. It argues that Latino marginality, despite being a concern of early social reformers, persisted due to the racialized nature of public policies and political platforms. Early-twentieth-century social policies that emerged due to the Civil Rights Movement eased integration for Southern and Eastern European immigrants, but left Latinos deeply marginalized. The Movement flourished, but so did white resistance against it, centrally expressed through the rise of coded, antiminority suppression tactics aimed at blacks and Latinos. The chapter examines how the crime policy debates gave rise to notions of street criminals as lacking the ability to reform, and how this disproportionately targeted blacks and Latinos through the wars on drugs, crime, and terrorism.
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