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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akers Chacón, Justin
Other Authors: Davis, Mike, 1946-2022
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Civil rights > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration.
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Physical Description:333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
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 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.