Descripción
Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America's history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Cristina Beltr n reveals white supremacy to be white democracy--a participatory practice of racial violence, domination, and exclusion that gave white citizens the right to both wield and exceed the law. Still, Beltr n sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Author: Cristina Beltrán
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781517911928
ISBN10: 1517911923
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Political Science | Public Policy | Immigration
About the Author
Cristina Beltrán is associate professor in New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. She is author of The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity.