No one is illegal : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / Justin Akers Chacon, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julian Cardona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akers Chacón, Justin.

Contributor:

Davis, Mike, 1946-

Cardona, Julian, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Civil rights--United States.

Immigrants.

Foreign workers, Mexican--United States--Social conditions.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

Contents:

pt. I. "What is a vigilante man?" : white violence in California history / Mike Davis

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

pt. II. Mexico : caught in the web of U.S. empire / Justin Akers Chacon

12. Conquest sets the stage

13. Neoliberalism consumes the "Mexican miracle"

14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA : profiting from borders

pt. 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

pt. 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

pt. 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-326) and index.

ISBN:

1-60846-052-5

OCLC:

646804520