Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which
imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of …

The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human
commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the …

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since
the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with …

The general indifference of the United States film industry toward the treatment of Hispanic
themes and the presence of Hispanic participants and, to a certain extent, the neglect by …

As Guadalupe Salazar looked out of her train window, her mind was full of images of the
past and questions about the future. Heading from Chicago to Los Angeles, she realized that …

1. This border zone includes all of South Texas and considerable portions of Central and
West Texas. In these areas, the Texas Mexican population ranges from 40 percent to 90 …

Political awareness of the tensions in US-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century;
the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the …

Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces
shaping the American educational system—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary …

By 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of
migrants entered the US nightly. In response, the INS launched" Operation Gatekeeper," the …

For the first time in US history, according to the Census Bureau, the number of biracial
babies is increasing at a faster rate than the number of single-race babies. In this collection …