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Author Beltrán, Cristina, author.

Title Cruelty as citizenship : how migrant suffering sustains white democracy / Cristina Beltrán
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Forerunners: ideas first
Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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
Hispanic Americans -- Violence against
White supremacy movements.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
White supremacy movements
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1452965986
9781452965987