fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border Akers Chac�on, Justin. creator Davis, Mike 1946- Cardona, Juli�an 1960- ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ilu Chicago, Ill Haymarket Books c2006 2006 monographic eng

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333 p. : ill. pt. I. "What is a vigilante man?" : white violence in California history / Mike Davis -- Introduction -- 1. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and vigilantes -- 2. White savages -- 3. Yellow peril -- 4. "Swat a Jap" -- 5. The anti-Filipino riots -- 6. The IWW versus the KKK -- 7. In dubious battle -- 8. Thank the vigilantes -- 9. The Zoot Suit wars -- 10. Beating the UFW -- 11. The last vigilantes -- pt. II. Mexico : caught in the web of U.S. empire / Justin Akers Chac�on -- Introduction -- 12. Conquest sets the stage -- 13. Neoliberalism consumes the "Mexican miracle" -- 14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA : profiting from borders -- pt. III. Mexican workers : the "other" American working class -- 15. Mexican workers to the rescue -- 16. Segregated workers : class struggle in the fields -- 17. The Bracero Program : a twentieth-century caste system -- 18. Poverty in the fields : legacy of the Bracero Program -- 19. Immigrant workers continue to build America -- pt. IV. The war on immigrants -- 20. Immigration policy as a means to control labor -- 21. The race and class construction of immigration restrictions -- 22. Constructing the "illegal" Mexican worker : racism and Mexican labor -- 23. Immigration double standards -- 24. Militarizing the border : death warrant for migrant workers -- 25. Inventing an invisible enemy : September 11 and the war on immigrants -- 26. The bipartisan segregationists of labor -- 27. The right wing calls the shots -- 28. Terrorists on the border : the Minutemen stalk their prey -- pt. V. Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras! -- 29. Human rights activists confront the far right -- 30. Unions and immigrant workers -- 31. Making borders history -- 32. A new civil rights movement. Justin Akers Chac�on, Mike Davis ; photographs by Juli�an Cardona. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-326) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-mx--- n-us--- Immigrants Civil rights United States Foreign workers, Mexican United States Social conditions United States Emigration and immigration Government policy Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration JV6456 .A38 2006eb 304.8/73072 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10282761 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10282761 CaPaEBR 110914 ebr10282761