Latino Mass Mobilization - Immigration, Racialization, and Activism

Informationen zum Autor Chris Zepeda-Millán is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Faculty Chair of the Center for Research on Social Change at University of California, Berkeley. His research has been published in top political science and interdisciplinary journals, and he has been interviewed by several local, national, and international media outlets, including: the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, La Opinion, Univision, PBS, Colorlines magazine, several Pacifica Network radio stations, as well as Canadian, Japanese, and Vietnamese television stations and newspapers. He has also been an invited contributor to NBC Latino, Latino Decisions, the London School of Economic's USAPP blog, The Progress magazine, and Huffington Post. Klappentext The first full-length study of the historic 2006 immigrant rights protests in the US, in which millions of Latinos participated. Zusammenfassung In the spring of 2006, millions of Latinos across the country participated in the largest civil rights protests in US history. In this timely and highly anticipated book, Chris Zepeda-Millán analyzes the background and course of these events and their aftermath, paying attention to local, national and demographic aspects. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Forging an immigrant rights movement, 1965-2005; 2. Weapons of the not so weak; 3. Promoting protest through ethnic media; 4. Coalitions and the racialization of illegality; 5. The suppression of immigrant contention. 6. Today we march, tomorrow we vote.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Zepeda-Millan, Chris (University of California Zepeda-Millan, Chris Zepeda-Millán
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107434127
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43412-7
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political activism, Migration, immigration & emigration, c 2000 to c 2010, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Constitution: government and the state