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1 online resource |
Series |
Forerunners: ideas first |
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Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Immigration, Latinos, and the Politics of the White Racial Imaginary -- 1. Freedom on the Frontier: White Democracy and America's Revolutionary Spirit -- 2. A Desire for Land but Not People: Herrenvolk Democracy and the Violent Legacies of the Mexican-American War -- 3. Authorized Violence: Migrant Suffering and Participatory (White) Democracy -- Conclusion: Migrant Futurity, Divided Whiteness, and the Authoritarian Turn -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author |
Summary |
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 Beltrán 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, Beltrán 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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2020) |
Subject |
Immigrants -- Violence against -- United States
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Hispanic Americans -- Violence against
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White supremacy movements.
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Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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White supremacy movements
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
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Subject |
United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1452965986 |
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9781452965987 |
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