This volume describes the realities facing Chicanos in contemporary Los Angeles: their history, demography, politics, economic issues and labour culture, institutions, gangs and gang violence, police abuse and right-wing attacks on immigrants. Rodolfo Acuna is the author of Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, The Sonoran Strongman and Community Under Siege.
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