ISBN:
9781139924719
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 295 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
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Print version
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Erscheint auch als Zepeda-Millán, Chris Latino mass mobilization
DDC:
324.089/68073
Keywords:
Protest movements
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Immigrants Civil rights
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Immigrants Political activity
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Hispanic Americans Politics and government
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Hispanic Americans ; Politics and government
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Immigrants ; Political activity ; United States
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Immigrants ; Civil rights ; United States
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Protest movements ; United States
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Hispanic Americans
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Immigrants
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Protest movements
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United States
Abstract:
In the spring of 2006, millions of Latinos across the country participated in the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history. In this timely and highly anticipated book, Chris Zepeda-Millán analyzes the background, course, and impacts of this unprecedented wave of protests, highlighting their unique local, national, and demographic dynamics. He finds that because of the particular ways the issue of immigrant illegality was racialized, federally proposed anti-immigrant legislation (H.R. 4437) helped transform Latinos' sense of latent group membership into the racial group consciousness that incited their engagement in large-scale collective action. Zepeda-Millán shows how nativist policy threats against disenfranchised undocumented immigrants can provoke a political backlash - on the streets and at the ballot box - from not only 'people without papers', but also naturalized and US-born citizens. Latino Mass Mobilization is an important intervention into contemporary debates regarding immigration policy, social movements, and racial politics in the United States
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DOI:
10.1017/9781139924719
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139924719
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139924719
