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No One Is Illegal
Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Essential reading for those interested in politics, human rights, and social justice.
No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.
Direct-mail and email campaign to groups mobilizing against Trump and anti-immigrant attacks. Out-reach to immigrant rights organizations locally and nationally. Authors available for speaking events and radio interviews, both English and Spanish media. Features and/or excerpts on La Raza website and National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights blog.
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Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One Is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States.
This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash.
Justin Akers Chacón is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class.
Mike Davis is the author of many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums.
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ISBN: 9781608468492
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 May 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Edition: Second Edition
Illustration: 1 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 246
About the Author
Justin Akers Chacn is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press).
Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.
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