TY - JOUR
AU - Marquez, Benjamin
AB - BOOK REVIEWS 331 Race, Police, and the Making of a Political that would have allowed Escobar to make Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los the most of his findings. For example, Esco- Angela Police Department, 19061945. By bar‘s argument that Mexican Americans Edward J. Escobar. Berkeley: University of were victims of institutionalized racial dis- California Press, 1999. Pp. ix-358. crimination in the LAPD is persuasive. Yet, his archival data suggest a more complex set BENJAMIN MARQUEZ of interactions than his binary characteriza- University of Wisconsin, Madison tion of Anglo domination and Mexican- American resistance allows. As Escobar Edward Escobar’s new book is a welcome notes, Mexican workers were targeted by the police because they were organizing through addition to the historical literature on Mexi- leftist unions like the International Ladies can Americans and law enforcement agen- Garment Workers Union. He demonstrates cies. It contains a wealth of new information that industrialists reacted to these mobilizing on the Los Angeles Police Department efforts by calling on the LAPD to break (LAPD) and the role it played in the Mexi- strikes and deport union leaders - often pay- can American community during the first ing their salaries and supplying them with 
TI - Book Review: Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900–1945: 
JF - International Migration Review
DO - 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2001.tb00018.xl
DA - 2018-07-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-race-police-and-the-making-of-a-political-identity-mexican-OW5mscPR6I
SP - 331
EP - 332
VL - 35
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -