No one is illegal : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border /

No one is illegal : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Akers Chacón, Justin.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, c2006.
Description:333 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.
Alien labor, Mexican -- United States -- Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Foreign workers, Mexican -- Social conditions.
Immigrants -- Civil rights.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6234125
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Other authors / contributors:Davis, Mike, 1946-
ISBN:1931859353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781931859356
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-326) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. "What is a Vigilante Man?" White Violence in Calfornia History
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes
  • 2. White Savages
  • 3. Yellow Peril
  • 4. "Swat a Jap"
  • 5. The Anti-Filipino Riots
  • 6. The IWW versus the KKK
  • 7. In Dubious Battle
  • 8. Thank the Vigilantes
  • 9. The Zoot Suit Wars
  • 10. Beating the UFW
  • 11. The Last Vigilantes
  • Part II. Mexico: Caught in the Web of U.S. Empire
  • Introduction
  • 12. Conquest Sets the Stage
  • 13. Neoliberalism Consumes the "Mexican Miracle"
  • 14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders
  • Part III. Mexican Workers: the "Other" American Working Class
  • 15. Mexican Workers to the Rescue
  • 16. Segregated Workers: Class Struggle in the Fields
  • 17. The Bracero Program: A Twentieth-Century Caste System
  • 18. Poverty in the Fields: Legacy of the Bracero Program
  • 19. Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America
  • Part IV. The War on Immigrants
  • 20. Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor
  • 21. The Race and Class Construction of Immigration Restrictions
  • 22. Constructing the "Illegal" Mexican Worker: Racism and Mexican Labor
  • 23. Immigration Double Standards
  • 24. Militarizing the Border: Death Warrant for Migrant Workers
  • 25. Inventing an Invisible Enemy: September 11 and the War on Immigrants
  • 26. The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor
  • 27. The Right Wing Calls the Shots
  • 28. Terrorists on the Border: The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey
  • Part V. Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras!
  • 29. Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right
  • 30. Unions and Immigrant Workers
  • 31. Making Borders History
  • 32. A New Civil Rights Movement
  • Notes
  • Index

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