Negotiating metropolitan spaces and identities: a historian's reading of tactics in 1920's New York homicide trials.

From: Social Justice | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: D'Cruze, Shani | Copyright information

Introduction

THE RECURRENT ASSOCIATION OF THE IMMIGRANT WITH CRIME (E.G., THE LAZY, criminal Albanian in 1990's Greece, or the homicidal Latino in Florida) has been questioned by researchers who have elucidated the institutional and cultural processes behind such stereotypes (Lee et al., 2001; Menjivar and Bejarano, 2004;Vassilis, 1998). Such anxieties are not recent phenomena: global movements of people and things have their histories. Boundary setting around imagined c...

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