RT Book
T1 Latino mass mobilization: immigration, racialization, and activism
A1 Zepeda-Millán, Chris
LA English
PP Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne, VIC New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1029041431
AB "In the spring of 2006, millions of Latinos across the country participated in the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history. In this timely and highly anticipated book, Chris Zepeda-Millán analyzes the background, course, and impacts of this unprecedented wave of protests, highlighting their unique local, national, and demographic dynamics. He finds that because of the particular ways the issue of immigrant illegality was racialized, federally proposed anti-immigrant legislation (H.R. 4437) helped transform Latinos' sense of latent group membership into the racial group consciousness that incited their engagement in large-scale collective action. Zepeda-Millán shows how nativist policy threats against disenfranchised undocumented immigrants can provoke a political backlash - on the streets and at the ballot box - from not only 'people without papers', but also naturalized and US-born citizens. Latino Mass Mobilization is an important intervention into contemporary debates regarding immigration policy, social movements, and racial politics in the United States."--Publisher's Web site
CN 324.089/68073
SN 9781107076945
SN 9781107434127
K1 Hispanic Americans
K1 Immigrants
K1 Protest movements
K1 United States