Behind Bars

1. Introduction “Viviendo en el olvido …”
Suzanne Oboler

Part I. The Issues

2. Latino/as and U.S. Prisons
José Luis Morín

3. Pursuant to Deportation
David Manuel Hernández

4. “Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas”
Alan Eladio Gómez

5. The Racial Politics of Youth Crime
Victor M. Rios

6. Caught in the Net
Laurie Schaffner

7. Lost Votes, Lost Bodies, Lost Jobs
Juan Cartagena

Part II. The Lived Experience

8. Checkpoint in Montebello
Mercedes Victoria Castillo

9. The Interpreter as a Bridge
Laura E. Garcia

10. Interpreting After the Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History
Erik Camayd-Freixas

11. Waste Is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Dicxon Valderruten

12. Closing the Gap
Marcia Esparza

Part III. The Art of Resistance

13. Latino Visual Culture Behind Bars
Victor Alejandro Sorell

14. “Troubadour of Justice”
Alan Eladio Gómez

15. Peltier 1/Peltier 2
raúlrsalinas

16. “Estoy como cuero de jicotea, que ni las balas me pasan”
Gabriel Torres-Rivera

17. La alegría de tener vergüenza
Rafael Cancel Miranda

Part IV. The Way Forward

18. Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Prisoners
Juanita Díaz-Cotto

19. Toward a Pinta/o Human Rights?
B. V. Olguín

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Ethnicity Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Latin American Culture, Prison and Punishment, Social Structure, Social Inequality