The deportation express : a history of America through forced removal / Ethan Blue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blue, Ethan, author.

Series:

American crossroads ; 61.

American crossroads ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deportation--United States--History.

Deportation.

Imprisonment--United States--History.

Imprisonment.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 422 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

A history of the United States' systematic expulsion of ""undesirables"" and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains. The United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment and deportation that the world has ever known. The Deportation Express is the first history of American deportation trains: a network of prison railroad cars repurposed by the Immigration Bureau to link jails, hospi.

Contents:

Cover

The Deportation Express

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE BUILDING THE DEPORTATION STATE

1 Planning the Journey

PART TWO EASTBOUND

2 Seattle

3 Portland

4 San Francisco

5 Denver

6 Chicago

7 Buffalo

8 Ellis Island

PART THREE WESTBOUND

9 Carbondale

10 New Orleans

11 San Antonio

12 El Paso

13 Angel Island

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

9780520973107

0520973100

OCLC:

1262372800