Looking for Justice in Texas Volume 6: A Century of Reckoning (New Directions in Tejano History)

Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas.Despite such formidable challenges, these communities have launched multiple movements to ensure public safety and equal treatment before the law.Looking for Justice in Texas provides historical context for these contemporary problems by examining potent examples of over-policing and multiple acts of resistance that took place in the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. The contributors to this edited volume, both established and emerging scholars, employ original research to demonstrate that the over-policing of African Americans, Mexican Americans, and immigrants has an extensive history in Texas.Looking for Justice delves into a range of pertinent topics, including how the circuits of power link borderlands policing to law enforcement in other states, white club women's support for the installation of a Confederate memorial and the removal of a middle-class African-American community,