No One Is Illegal

by Akers Chacon, Justin

• ISBN13: 9781931859356
• ISBN10: 1931859353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-03
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

In No One Is Illegal Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Countering the mounting chorus of anti-immigrant voices, No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their deep roots in U.S. history, and documents the new civil rights movement that has mounted protests around the country to demand justice and dignity for immigrants.

Author Biography

Mike Davis is a historian and author of many books, including City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine. Justin Akers Chac=n 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. Julißn Cardona was born in 1960 in Zacatecas, Mexico, and migrated to the border city of Jußrez with his family as a small child. He worked as a technician in the maquiladora industry before becoming a photojournalist in 1993. In 2004, Cardona received a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(4)
Part I: ``What is a Vigilante Man?'' White Violence in California History
Mike Davis
Introduction	11	(4)
Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes	15	(6)
White Savages	21	(6)
Yellow Peril	27	(6)
``Swat a Jap''	33	(6)
The Anti-Filipino Riots	39	(4)
The IWW versus the KKK	43	(10)
In Dubious Battle	53	(6)
Thank the Vigilantes	59	(12)
The Zoot Suit Wars	71	(6)
Beating the UFW	77	(6)
The Last Vigilantes	83	(16)
Part II: Mexico: Caught in the Web of U.S. Empire
Justin Akers Chacon
Introduction	89	(10)
Conquest Sets the Stage	99	(10)
Neoliberalism Consumes the ``Mexican Miracle''	109	(6)
From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders	115	(10)
Part III: Mexican Workers: the ``Other'' American Working Class
Mexican Workers to the Rescue	125	(6)
Segregated Workers: Class Struggle in the Fields	131	(8)
The Bracero Program: A Twentieth-Century Caste System	139	(10)
Poverty in the Fields: Legacy of the Bracero Program	149	(6)
Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America	155	(18)
Part IV: The War on Immigrants
Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor	173	(8)
The Race and Class Construction of Immigration Restrictions	181	(10)
Constructing the ``Illegal'' Mexican Worker: Racism and Mexican Labor	191	(6)
Immigration Double Standards	197	(4)
Militarizing the Border: Death Warrant for Migrant Workers	201	(14)
Inventing an Invisible Enemy: September 11 and the War on Immigrants	215	(12)
The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor	227	(10)
The Right Wing Calls the Shots	237	(12)
Terrorists on the Border: The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey	249	(12)
Part V: ¡Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras!
Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right	261	(6)
Unions and Immigrant Workers	267	(10)
Making Borders History	277	(10)
A New Civil Rights Movement	287	(8)
Notes	295	(32)
Index	327