ABSTRACT

This theoretical paper focuses on the creation of the overly criminalistic Latin@ stereotype in the United States as a response to growing numbers of immigrants threatening white hegemony. As a mechanism of social control, Latin@s have faced inequitable treatment within the judicial and school systems of the United States. This paper examines criminality literature and its focus on the white/black binary before a legal system evolution that controls Latin@s. Social, legal, and racial control of Latin@s has occurred via negative public sentiment, inequitable juror practices, biased judicial sentencing and leniency, over-policing, and the “War on Drugs.”

摘要

这篇理论论文侧重于在美国创建过于犯罪主义的拉丁@刻板印象，作为对威胁白人霸权的越来越多移民的回应。作为一种社会控制机制，拉丁人在美国的司法和学校系统中面临着不公平的待遇。本文研究了犯罪文学及其对控制拉丁语的法律制度演变之前的白/黑二元论的关注。对拉丁人的社会、法律和种族控制是通过负面的公众情绪、不公平的陪审员做法、有偏见的司法判决和宽大处理、过度警务和“毒品战争”发生的。