No one is illegal : fighting racism and state violence on the U.S.-Mexico border

No one is illegal Fighting racism and state violence on the U.S.-Mexico border

Justin Akers Chacón

Book - 2018

"In No One Is Illegal Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Counting the mounting chorus of anti-immigrant voices, No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their deep roots in U.S. history, and documents the new civil rights movement that has mounted protests around the country to demand justice and dignity for immigrants"--Publisher's description.

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Subjects
Immigrants > Civil rights > United States.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Violence > Mexican-American Border Region.
Vigilantes > Mexican-American Border Region.
Racism > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration.
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Justin Akers Chacón (author)
Other Authors
Mike Davis, 1946- (author), Julián Cardona, 1960- (illustrator)
Edition
Updated edition
Item Description
"First published in 2006"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
xxii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-403) and index.
ISBN
9781608468492
  • Preface to the 2018 Edition: Trump and the Failure of Neoliberal Immigration Reform
  • Preface
  • Part I. "What Is a Vigilante MM?" White Violence in Calfornia History
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes
  • 2. White Savages
  • 3. The 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?
  • Part II. Mexico: Caught in the Web of U.S. Empire
  • Introduction
  • 12. Conquest Sets the Stage
  • 13. Neoliberalism Consumes the "Mexican Miracle"
  • 14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders
  • Part 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
  • Part 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
  • Part 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
  • 33. Mass Mobilization Defeats Sensenbrenner-King (HR4437)
  • 34. State Repression of Immigrant Workers
  • 35. The Immigrant Rights Movement at the Polls
  • 36. The Arizona Laboratory and SB 1070
  • 37. S. 744: The Degeneration of "Comprehensive Immigration Reform"
  • 38. Immigrant Rights at a Crossroads
  • Notes
  • Index

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