ISBN:
9781452965987
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1452965986
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (126 pages)
Series Statement:
Forerunners: ideas first
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als CRUELTY AS CITIZENSHIP
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
White supremacy movements
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Hispanic Americans Violence against
;
Immigrants Violence against
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Américains d'origine latino-américaine - Violence envers
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Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche
;
Emigration and immigration - Political aspects
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Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
;
White supremacy movements
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
Political aspects
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
Social aspects
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États-Unis - Émigration et immigration - Aspect social
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États-Unis - Émigration et immigration - Aspect politique
;
United States
Abstract:
Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives? More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America's history of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Cristina Beltrán reveals white supremacy to be white democracy--a participatory practice of racial violence, domination, and exclusion that gave white citizens the right to both wield and exceed the law. Still, Beltrán sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : immigration, Latinos, and the politics of the white racial imaginary -- Freedom on the frontier : white democracy and America's revolutionary spirit -- A desire for land but not people : Herrenvolk democracy and the violent legacies of the Mexican-American War -- Authorized violence : migrant suffering and participatory (white) democracy -- Conclusion : migrant futurity, divided whiteness, and the authoritarian turn.
Note:
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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Includes bibliographical references
