Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States.
This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash.
A Spanish edition of the book is also available.
Justin Akers Chacn is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class.
Mike Davis is the author many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums.
By:
Justin Akers Chacon,
Mike Davis
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781608468492
ISBN 10: 1608468496
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 21 August 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Preface to the 2018 Edition: Trump and the Failure of Neoliberal Immigration Reform vii Preface xix Part I: What Is a Vigilante Man? White Violence in Calfornia History Mike Davis Introduction 3 1. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes 7 2. White Savages 13 3. Yellow Peril 19 4. Swat a Jap 25 5. The Anti-Filipino Riots 31 6. The IWW versus the KKK 35 7. I n Dubious Battle 45 8. Thank the Vigilantes 51 9. The Zoot Suit Wars 63 10. Beating the UFW 69 11. The Last Vigilantes 75 Part II: Mexico: Caught in the Web of U.S. Empire Justin Akers Chacon Introduction 81 12. Conquest Sets the Stage 91 13. Neoliberalism Consumes the Mexican Miracle 101 14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders 107 Part III: Mexican Workers: The Other American Working Class 15. Mexican Workers to the Rescue 117 16. Segregated Workers: Class Struggle in the Fields 123 17. The Bracero Program: A Twentieth-Century Caste System 131 18. Poverty in the Fields: Legacy of the Bracero Program 141 19. Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America 147 Part IV: The War on Immigrants 20. Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor 165 21. The Race and Class Construction of Immigration Restrictions 173 22. Constructing the Illegal Mexican Worker: Racism and Mexican Labor 183 23. Immigration Double Standards 189 24. Militarizing the Border: Death Warrant for Migrant Workers 193 25. Inventing an Invisible Enemy: September 11 and the War on Immigrants 207 26. The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor 219 27. The Right Wing Calls the Shots 229 28. Terrorists on the Border: The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey 241 Part V: !Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras! 29. Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right 253 30. Unions and Immigrant Workers 259 31. Making Borders History 269 32. A New Civil Rights Movement 279 33. Mass Mobilization Defeats Sensenbrenner-King (HR 4437) 287 34. State Repression of Immigrant Workers 293 35. The Immigrant Rights Movement at the Polls 305 36. The Arizona Laboratory and SB 1070 319 37. S . 744: The Degeneration of Comprehensive Immigration Reform 329 38. Immigrant Rights at a Crossroads 341 Notes 359 Index 404
Justin Akers Chacn is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press). Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.
