Alvaro Huerta

Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of short essays and stories, this book primarily focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Accompanied by the brilliant art of Salomon Huerta, the book re-frames, defends, and humanizes los de abajo (those on the bottom).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780761871279
• ISBN-10: 0761871276
• Artikelnr.: 56289446

Autorenporträt

By Alvaro Huerta - Contributions by José Z. Calderón; Juan Gómez-Quiñones and Joaquin Montes Huerta

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Foreword by Dr. José Z. Calderón Introduction by Dr. Alvaro
Huerta 1.Brief History Notes on Mexican Immigration to the U.S. By Dr.
Alvaro Huerta 2.La Realidad: The Realities of Anti-Mexicanism-A Paradigm By
Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones 3.Immigration Should be a Basic Human Right By Dr.
Alvaro Huerta 4.The Day I Learned I was Poor and Mexican By Dr. Alvaro
Huerta 5.Once Ashamed of My Mexican Parents, but not Anymore By Dr. Alvaro
Huerta 6.A Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing: Reflections of a
Scholar-Activist By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 7."Just Say No" to Senate's "Gang of
Eight" Immigration Bill By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 8.No White Christmas for Brown
Immigrants By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 9.Lessons on Community Organizing in
Chicana/o Communities: Educate, Agitate & Organize By Dr. Alvaro Huerta
10.Socioeconomic Inequality Impacting Marginalized Communities Must Change
By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 11.Republican Leaders Will Regret Attacking Latina/o
Immigrants By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 12.Scaremongering Over Child Refugees is
Deplorable By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 13.Without Hope, Blacks and Latinas/os Will
Take to the Streets By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 14.El Robo: In Memory of My
Mexican Mother By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 15.La Pistola: In Memory of My Mexican
Father By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 16.Lessons My Mexican Father Taught Me By Dr.
Alvaro Huerta 17.The Day My Mexican Father Met Cesar Chavez By Dr. Alvaro
Huerta 18.A Chicana/o Love Story: Tribute to a Wise and Beautiful Chicana
By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 19.Trump's Racist Comments Help Democrats in the
Future By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 20.New Republican Xenophobic Policies Will
Inevitably Backfire By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 21.Trump Exemplifies True Colors
of GOP By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 22.Trump's Mass Deportation Plan Symbolizes
White Privilege By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 23.City of Los Angeles Should Regulate
Street Vendors By Joaquin Montes Huerta and Dr. Alvaro Huerta 24.Saturday
Night Live Must Dump GOP Candidate Donald J. Trump By Dr. Alvaro Huerta
25.U.S. Courts Maintain Undocumented Immigrants in the Shadows By Dr.
Alvaro Huerta 26.The Shameful Case of Latino Republican Leaders: Sen. Ted
Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 27.Republican Policies and
Christian Values: Inherent Contradictions? By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 28.An Open
Letter to Candidate Clinton on Trouncing Trump in the General Election By
Dr. Alvaro Huerta 29.Urban Planners Unite Against Trump By Dr. Alvaro
Huerta 30.The Hustler: Trump and the Mean Streets of East Los Angeles By
Dr. Alvaro Huerta 31.An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump:
Confessions of an "Anchor Baby" By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 32.The Hustler 2.0:
President Trump By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 33.An Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown
on California Becoming a Sanctuary State By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 34.The "War
on Immigrants": Racist Policies in the Era of Trump By Dr. Alvaro Huerta
35.On the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970 and the Case of Ruben Salazar By Dr.
Juan Gómez-Quiñones 36.Advocating for the Immigrant Domestic Workforce By
Dr. Alvaro Huerta 37.President Barack Obama Should've Halted Mass
Deportations By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 38.Demanding a Clean DACA Bill, Now! By
Dr. Alvaro Huerta 39.No Deal on "Sh*thole" Border Wall! By Dr. Alvaro
Huerta 40.Viva the Scholar-Activist! By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 41.In Memory of
My Beloved Brother: Noel "Nene" Huerta By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 42.Trump
Epitomizes America's History of Anti-Mexicanism By Dr. Alvaro Huerta 43.A
Call for Urban Planning Latina/o Faculty: In Memory of Dr. Leo Estrada By
Dr. Alvaro Huerta 44.I Am Not Your "Wetback" By Dr. Alvaro Huerta
Conclusion by Dr. Alvaro Huerta Works Cited Index About the Author About
the Contributors