No one is illegal [[electronic resource] ] : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / / Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julián Cardona
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Akers Chacón Justin
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No one is illegal [[electronic resource] ] : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / / Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julián Cardona
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, Ill., : Haymarket Books, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.8/73072 |
| Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - Civil rights - United States |
| Foreign workers, Mexican - United States - Social conditions | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Emigration and immigration Government policy |
| Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
DavisMike <1946->
CardonaJulián <1960->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-326) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Chacón -- Introduction -- 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | No one is illegal |
| ISBN: | 1-60846-052-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456615103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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