No One Is Illegal Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U. S. -Mexico Border

Name: No One Is Illegal Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U. S. -Mexico Border
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ISBN: 9781931859356

ISBN-10: 1931859353

ISBN-13: 9781931859356

Edition: 2006

Authors: Justin Akers Chacon, Mike Davis, Julian Cardona

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"A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."-Susan Faludi "[Davis' writing is] perceptive and rigorous."-David Montgomery, The Nation "[Davis' work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."-The Village Voice "[Davis' work is] eloquent and passionate."-Tariq Ali No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants. Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices, Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Davis and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



"What is a Vigilante Man?" White Violence in Calfornia History



Introduction



Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes



White Savages



Yellow Peril



"Swat a Jap"



The Anti-Filipino Riots



The IWW versus the KKK



In Dubious Battle



Thank the Vigilantes



The Zoot Suit Wars



Beating the UFW



The Last Vigilantes



Mexico: Caught in the Web of U.S. Empire



Introduction



Conquest Sets the Stage



Neoliberalism Consumes the "Mexican Miracle"



From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders



Mexican Workers: the "Other" American Working Class



Mexican Workers to the Rescue



Segregated Workers: Class Struggle in the Fields



The Bracero Program: A Twentieth-Century Caste System



Poverty in the Fields: Legacy of the Bracero Program



Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America



The War on Immigrants



Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor



The Race and Class Construction of Immigration Restrictions



Constructing the "Illegal" Mexican Worker: Racism and Mexican Labor



Immigration Double Standards



Militarizing the Border: Death Warrant for Migrant Workers



Inventing an Invisible Enemy: September 11 and the War on Immigrants



The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor



The Right Wing Calls the Shots



Terrorists on the Border: The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey



Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras!



Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right



Unions and Immigrant Workers



Making Borders History



A New Civil Rights Movement


Notes


Index