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Alicia Sotero Vásquez: Police Brutality Against an Undocumented Mexican Woman
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
  • Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, Trinity University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2004
Abstract

This article focuses on police brutality and human rights violations in the United States. The author examines the infamous Riverside Sheriff's brutal beating of an undocumented Mexican woman—which was captured and broadcast live via television—as exemplary of a particular historical relationship between Mexican labor, the U.S. nation-state, and the material conditions of immigrant laborers. Tracing this relationship through a historical survey of Mexican immigration from the turn of the twentieth century and placing the analysis in the context of Critical Race Theory, the article foregrounds the intersection of race, class, and gender. While the author focuses on the Riverside Sheriff's beating and apprehension of Alicia Sotero Vásquez, she also suggests the larger issue of gender on the border and the violence being perpetrated upon women who are seen as disposable under transnational capitalism.

Publisher
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
Citation Information
Urquijo-Ruiz, R.E. (2004). Alicia Sotero Vásquez: Police brutality against an undocumented Mexican woman. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 4(1), 62-84.