Those Damned Immigrants
Ediberto Román
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Description for Those Damned Immigrants
Hardcover. Takes on critics of Latina/o immigration, using government statistics, economic data, historical records, and social science research to provide a counter-narrative Series: Citizenship and Migration in the Americas. Num Pages: 197 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigration
The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant,
was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat Sucuzhanay into a coma. He died 5 days later.
The incident is one of countless attacks—ranging from physical violence to raids ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
Series
Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814776575
SKU
V9780814776575
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99-14
About Ediberto Román
Ediberto Román (Author) Ediberto Román is Professor of Law at Florida International University. He is the author of The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of the United States’ Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests, and edits the NYU Press series Citizenship and Migration in the Americas. Michael A. Olivas (Author) ... Read more
Reviews for Those Damned Immigrants
This data-driven and massively documented study replaces rhetoric with analysis, myth with fact, and apocalyptic predictions with sane and realizable proposals.
Stanley Fish,Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor, Florida International University This outstanding book illuminates the historical, economic, political and even psychological aspects of one of the major civil rights issues of our time. Balanced, thoroughly researched and clear-eyed, this volume ... Read more
Stanley Fish,Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor, Florida International University This outstanding book illuminates the historical, economic, political and even psychological aspects of one of the major civil rights issues of our time. Balanced, thoroughly researched and clear-eyed, this volume ... Read more