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No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border »

Authors: Justin Akers Chacon, Mike Davis, Julian Cardona
ISBN-13: 9781931859356, ISBN-10: 1931859353
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Justin Akers Chacon

Justin Akers Chacon 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.

Book Synopsis

No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

Pt. I	"What is a vigilante man?" : white violence in California history
1	Pinkertons, Klansmen, and vigilantes	15
2	White savages	21
3	Yellow peril	27
4	"Swat a Jap"	33
5	The anti-Filipino riots	39
6	The IWW versus the KKK	43
7	In dubious battle	53
8	Thank the vigilantes	59
9	The zoot suit wars	71
10	Beating the UFW	77
11	The last vigilantes	83
Pt. II	Mexico : caught in the web of U.S. empire
12	Conquest sets the stage	99
13	Neoliberalism consumes the "Mexican miracle"	109
14	From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA : profiting from borders	115
Pt. III	Mexican workers : the "other" American working class
15	Mexican workers to the rescue	125
16	Segregated workers : class struggle in the fields	131
17	The Bracero program : a twentieth-century caste system	139
18	Poverty in the fields : legacy of the Bracero program	149
19	Immigrant workers continue to build America	155
Pt. IV	The war on immigrants
20	Immigration policy as a means to control labor	173
21	The race and class construction of immigration restrictions	181
22	Constructing the "illegal" Mexican worker : racism and Mexican labor	191
23	Immigration double standards	197
24	Militarizing the border : death warrant for migrant workers	201
25	Inventing an invisible enemy : September 11 and the war on immigrants	215
26	The bipartisan segregationists of labor	227
27	The right wing calls the shots	237
28	Terrorists on the border : the minutemen stalk their prey	249
Pt. V	Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras!
29	Human rights activists confront the far right	261
30	Unions and immigrant workers	267
31	Making borders history	277
32	A new civil rights movement	287