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The grit beneath the glitter [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the real Las Vegas / / edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis
| The grit beneath the glitter [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the real Las Vegas / / edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
| Disciplina | 979.3/135034 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RothmanHal <1958-2007.>
DavisMike <1946-> |
| Soggetto topico | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-520-93545-4
1-282-76241-9 9786612762413 1-59734-643-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas -- Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naïfs, Junking Up, and the New Strip -- Las Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada -- Discordant Infrastructure -- Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 -- Lighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz -- Build It and the Water Will Come -- The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada -- Rise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas -- Class Struggle in Oz -- "Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas": Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA -- I Didn't Know Anybody Lived There -- How I Became a Native -- Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers -- "She Works Hard for Her Money": A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945-1985 -- The Racial Cauldron -- Inside Jean -- Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women's View of Las Vegas A Film Journal -- Colony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas -- Who Puts the "Sin" in "Sin City" Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women -- Nevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos -- Canto: Las Vegas -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450082703321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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
| 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 |
| Autore | Akers Chacón Justin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Haymarket Books, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.8/73072 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DavisMike <1946->
CardonaJulián <1960-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Civil rights - United States
Foreign workers, Mexican - United States - Social conditions |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-60846-052-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456615103321 |
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| Chicago, Ill., : Haymarket Books, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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