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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Akers Chacón, Justin.     Subjects     Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.     Alien labor, Mexican -- United States -- Social conditions.     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.     Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Akers Chacón, Justin.       by title:      No one is illegal : ...         MARC Display

No one is illegal : fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis ; photographs by Julián Cardona. by Akers Chacón, Justin. Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, c2006. Subjects Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.   Alien labor, Mexican -- United States -- Social conditions.   United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.   Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration. ISBN:  1931859353 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781931859356 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  333 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-326) and index. Contents Note:  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. Contributors:  Davis, Mike, 1946- Cardona, Julián, 1960- Internet Link:  Table of contents Format:    Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Glendale CC Library General JV6456 .A38 2006 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Phoenix College Library General JV6456 .A38 2006 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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