CHICANO 10B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gang Injunction
27 Feb 2017
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Race and place in cadillac-corning. police, power, and the production of racial boundaries. Muniz creates a parallel between the way barbarians are viewed and how young people of color are viewed. She expresses the similarities in how lapd hunts down these men, create prejudice, scapegoat, and suspend their rights (4) Muniz is using her sociological approach to engage societal perceptions into her text. She is also displaying a criminology approach in order to analyze law and policing tactics used to criminalize young p. oc. Violence created by the state( police and city prosecutors) is both ethically reprehensible and ineffective at ending street violence. (5) The creation and implementation of los angeles city"s first gang injunction solidified cadillac- corning"s stigmatization in the 1980"s. Muniz concludes in her chapter how institutions like police, prosecutors, business owners, and other people from surrounding areas of cadillac corning as well as home owners complained about the place and how they would develop more repressive strategies. (9)
