Chicano prisoners;: The key to San Quentin, (Case studies in cultural anthropology) - Softcover

Davidson, R. Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 003091616X ISBN 13: 9780030916168

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974

Synopsis

The Chicano prisoner, like the migrant worker or the black child in a ghetto school, is a member of a group that is prejudicially treated by members of the mainstream society. The Chicano prisoner suffers double jeopardy because he is both Chicano and a prisoner of the state. Like the black child or the migrant worker, the Chicano prisoner has special means of coping with the acute deficit of his particular situation. Ted Davidson adeptly takes the reader from the world outside the walls of the prison, comprised of the officials' homes with neatly groomed lawns, to the prisoners' world inside the walls with blocks of 11-by-41/2 foot cells of concrete and steel and treeless, grassless concrete yards. He succeeds in helping he reader to understand why prisoners think and act as they do in their particular ecosphere.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 003091616X
• ISBN 13: 9780030916168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196