ISBN:
1931859353
,
9781931859356
Language:
English
Pages:
333 S.
,
Ill.
,
22 cm
DDC:
304.8/73072
Keywords:
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
;
Bürgerrecht
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Mexikanischer Einwanderer
;
Einwanderer
;
Migration
;
Politik
;
Immigrants Civil rights
;
Alien labor, Mexican Social conditions
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Auswanderer
;
Rassismus
;
USA
;
USA
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
Government policy
;
Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration
;
Mexiko
;
USA
;
USA
;
Mexiko
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Auswanderer
;
Rassismus
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-326) and index
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006018288.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006018288.html
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