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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Justin Akers Chacón; Mike Davis |
ISBN: | 9781931859356 1931859353 |
OCLC Number: | 76416062 |
Notes: | Subtitle on cover: Fighting racism and state violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. |
Description: | 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | TABLE OF CONTENTS -- "What is a vigilante man?" White violence in California history / Mike Davis -- 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 / Justin Akers Chacón -- 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. |
Other Titles: | Fighting racism and state violence on the U.S.-Mexico border |
Responsibility: | Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julián Cardona. |
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