Edward J Escobar

Biographic Data

ID1017724
NAMEEdward J Escobar
GIVEN NAMESEdward J
FAMILY NAMEEscobar
SIGNATUREESCOBAR E J
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity

    Open AccessEdward J EscobarBOOKRace, Police, and the Making of a…2023

  • The Unintended Consequences of the Carceral State

    Edward J EscobarARTICLEJournal of American History2015Cited by: 1

    The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of scholarly interest in the expansion of the carceral state in the post-World War II United States.This scholarship centers on how repressive laws, combined with more aggressive policing and sentencing guidelines, fueled the 500 percent rise in the nation's prison population since the 1960s.With black and Latino men imprisoned at several times the rate of white males, the consequences of mass i…

  • Bloody Christmas and the Irony of Police Professionalism

    Edward J EscobarARTICLEPacific Historical Review2003Cited by: 3References: 2

    On December 25, 1951, approximately fifty Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers brutally beat seven young men in their custody, including five Mexican Americans. The ensuing controversy became known as Bloody Christmas. Mexican American activists demanded investigations into allegations of police brutality and LAPD accountability to civilian control. The LAPD's new chief, William Parker, however, had just launched a reform campaign based …

  • Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings

    Edward J Escobar, Eric C SchneiderARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. By Eric C. Schneider. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xx, 334 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-00141-3.) Get access Edward J. Escobar Edward J. Escobar Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page 742, https://doi.org/1…

  • Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity

    Douglas Monroy, Edward J Escobar et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

  • Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity

    Edward J EscobarBOOKRace, Police, and the Making of a…1999

  • LBJ and Mexican Americans

    Edward J Escobar, Julie Leininger PyciorARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 7

    Journal Article LBJ & Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power. By Julie Leininger Pycior. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-292-76577-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-76578-9.) Get access Edward J. Escobar Edward J. Escobar Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 116…

  • Becoming Mexican American

    Edward J Escobar, George J SanchezARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 7

    Journal Article Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945. By George J. Sanchez. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii, 367 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-506990-0.) Get access Edward J. Escobar Edward J. Escobar Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 177…

  • Memories of Chicano History

    Edward J Escobar, Mario T GarcíaARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona Get access Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona. By García Mario T.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xviii + 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $30.00.) Edward J. Escobar Edward J. Escobar Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, V…

  • The Dialectics of Repression

    Edward J EscobarARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 19

    Journal Article The Dialectics of Repression: The Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicano Movement, 1968–1971 Get access Edward J. Escobar Edward J. Escobar associate professor in the Department of Minority Studies Indiana University Northwest Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1483–1514, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080213 Published: 01 Mar…

  • Mexican Revolutionaries and the Los Angeles Police

    Edward J EscobarARTICLEAztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies1986

    Research Article| September 01 1986 Mexican Revolutionaries and the Los Angeles Police: Harassment of the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1907-1910 Edward J. Escobar Edward J. Escobar Indiana University Northwest Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1986) 17 (1): 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1986.17.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share I…