Terry Greene Sterling - Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance

Long before Donald J. Trump, there was Joe Arpaio, the Bull Connor-esque sheriff notorious for his mistreatment of immigrants and Latinos in Arizonas largest county. But the authors of Driving While Brown have masterfully documented the previously unknown story of the Latino activists who organized to bring him down and help turn Arizona into a new battleground state. Investigative journalism, storytelling, at its best.

Alfredo Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico and Homelands

This is combustible nonfiction: an irresistible subject, a white sheriff so consumed by the perceived threat of brown immigrants that hell defy the federal judiciary. Add two of the best reporters in the Southwestreally, anywhereand you get a searing, decades-long portrait of racism in America and the criminal justice system that has perpetuated it, and the deconstruction of an ignorant and self-absorbed elected official who is very much like the president who pardoned him. To read this book is to understand America in the twenty-first century.

Walter V. Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winner, leader of the Boston Globe s Spotlight Team that inspired the Academy Awardwinning film Spotlight

Driving While Brown reads like a novel and is at once a rich, intimate portrayal of the excesses of immigration enforcement in one locality in the country as well as an analysis of the forces and power dynamics that make these repressive practices possible in the rest of the country.

Cecilia Menjvar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, and President, American Sociological Association, 202122

In Driving While Brown , Greene Sterling and Joffe-Block expertly fill in the blanks and connect the dots to build a compelling, comprehensive narrative of the immigration battles that have defined and redefined Arizona, offering a window into the ethnic and racial animus in the United States today and the transformative power of hope and purpose shared by younger generations. This is a book for our times.

Fernanda Santos, author of The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and former Phoenix bureau chief for the New York Times

The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Anne G. Lipow Endowment Fund in Social Justice and Human Rights.

Driving While Brown

SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO VERSUS THE LATINO RESISTANCE

Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press

Oakland, California

2021 by Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Greene Sterling, Terry, author. | Joffe-Block, Jude, 1982 author.

Title: Driving while brown : Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino resistance / Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block.

Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020047408 (print) | LCCN 2020047409 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520294080 (cloth) | ISBN 9780520967356 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH : Arpaio, Joe, 1932 | Immigration enforcement ArizonaMaricopa CountyHistory.

Classification: LCC JV 6483 . S 846 2021 (print) | LCC JV 6483 (ebook) | DDC 363.28/20979173dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047408

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047409

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