Race, colonialism, and criminal law: Mexicans and the American criminal justice system in territorial New Mexico

Law and Society Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1129-1202

  Gómez, Laura E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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