No One Is Illegal (updated Edition) by Justin Akers Chacon, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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 Chacon 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 many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums . p class=p1">ContentsPreface to the 2018 Edition: Trump and the Failureof Neoliberal Immigration Reform viiPreface xixPart I: "What Is a Vigilante Man?" White Violence in Calfornia HistoryMike DavisIntroduction 31. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes 72. White Savages 133. Yellow Peril 194. "Swat a Jap" 255. The Anti-Filipino Riots 316. The IWW versus the KKK 357. I n Dubious Battle 458. Thank the Vigilantes 519. The Zoot Suit Wars 6310. Beating the UFW 6911. The Last Vigilantes 75Part II: Mexico: Caught in the Web of U. S. EmpireJustin Akers ChaconIntroduction 8112. Conquest Sets the Stage 9113. Neoliberalism Consumes the "Mexican Miracle" 10114. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders 107Part III: Mexican Workers: The "Other" American Working Class15. Mexican Workers to the Rescue 11716. Segregated Workers: Class Struggle in the Fields 12317. The Bracero Program: A Twentieth-Century Caste System 13118. Poverty in the Fields: Legacy of the Bracero Program 14119. Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America 147Part IV: The War on Immigrants20. Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor 16521. The Race and Class Constructionof Immigration Restrictions 17322. Constructing the "Illegal" Mexican Worker: Racism and Mexican Labor 18323. Immigration Double Standards 18924. Militarizing the Border: Death Warrant for Migrant Workers 19325. Inventing an Invisible Enemy:September 11 and the War on Immigrants 20726. The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor 21927. The Right Wing Calls the Shots 22928. Terrorists on the Border: The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey 241Part V: ¡Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras!29. Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right 25330. Unions and Immigrant Workers 25931. Making Borders History 26932. A New Civil Rights Movement 27933. Mass Mobilization Defeats Sensenbrenner-King(HR 4437) 28734. State Repression of Immigrant Workers 29335. The Immigrant Rights Movement at the Polls 30536. The Arizona Laboratory and SB 1070 31937. S . 744: The Degenerationof "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" 32938. Immigrant Rights at a Crossroads 341Notes 359Index 404" | No One Is Illegal (updated Edition) by Justin Akers Chacon, Paperback | Indigo Chapters