Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517911928)

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 Beltr n 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, Beltr n sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice.

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Author: Cristina Beltr疣
ISBN-10: 1517911923
ISBN-13: 9781517911928
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d