ABSTRACT
In the spring of 2006, a middle-class Mexican American teenager was viciously attacked and sodomized by two white teenagers yelling “white power” and anti-Latino insults at a party in a mostly white suburb of Houston. Suffering from multiple serious wounds, including a swastika cut into his chest, the young man was hospitalized for months and had numerous surgeries for his severe injuries. He later committed suicide, and his white attackers were eventually imprisoned for the brutal crime (Associated Press, 2007).
