Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

Alvaro Huerta

doi:10.5771/9780761871286

Summary

A collection of short essays and stories, Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Using his rigorous academic training, public policy knowledge, and community activist background, as well as his personal and familial experiences as the son of Mexican immigrants, Alvaro Huerta defends and humanizes los de abajo / those on the bottom. He skillfully re-frames how Latina/o immigrants should be viewed as productive and important members in this country, debunking the xenophobic tropes, lies, and myths about Latina/o immigrants as criminals, social burdens, and national security threats. Accompanied by the brilliant art of an internationally acclaimed artist, Salomon Huerta, and powerful photos of two established photographers, this book also investigates intersectional issues related to race, class, place, and state violence.

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-7127-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-7128-6
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 193
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One: Brief History Notes on Mexican Immigration to the U.S. No access Pages 5 - 8
Chapter Two: La Realidad No access Pages 9 - 14
Chapter Three: Immigration Should be a Basic Human Right No access Pages 15 - 18
Chapter Four: The Day I Learned I was Poor and Mexican No access Pages 19 - 22
Chapter Five: Once Ashamed of My Mexican Parents, but not Anymore No access Pages 23 - 26
Chapter Six: A Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing No access Pages 27 - 32
Chapter Seven: “Just Say No” to the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” Immigration Bill No access Pages 33 - 34
Chapter Eight: No White Christmas for Brown Immigrants No access Pages 35 - 38
Chapter Nine: Lessons on Community Organizing in Chicana/o Communities No access Pages 39 - 42
Chapter Ten: Socioeconomic Inequality Impacting Marginalized Communities Must Change No access Pages 43 - 46
Chapter Eleven: Republican Leaders Will Regret Attacking Latina/o Immigrants No access Pages 47 - 50
Chapter Twelve: Scaremongering Over Child Refugees is Deplorable No access Pages 51 - 52
Chapter Thirteen: Without Hope, Blacks and Latinas/os Will Take to the Streets No access Pages 53 - 56
Chapter Fourteen: El Robo No access Pages 57 - 60
Chapter Fifteen: La Pistola No access Pages 61 - 64
Chapter Sixteen: Lessons My Mexican Father Taught Me No access Pages 65 - 68
Chapter Seventeen: The Day My Mexican Father Met Cesar Chavez No access Pages 69 - 72
Chapter Eighteen: A Chicana/o Love Story No access Pages 73 - 76
Chapter Nineteen: Trump’s Racist Comments Help Democrats in the Future No access Pages 77 - 78
Chapter Twenty: New Republican Xenophobic Policies Will Inevitably Backfire No access Pages 79 - 80
Chapter Twenty-one: Trump Exemplifies True Colors of GOP No access Pages 81 - J
Chapter Twenty-two: Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Symbolizes White Privilege No access Pages 83 - 84
Chapter Twenty-three: City of Los Angeles Should Regulate Street Vendors No access Pages 85 - 88
Chapter Twenty-four: Saturday Night Live Must Dump GOP Candidate Donald J. Trump No access Pages 89 - 92
Chapter Twenty-five: U.S. Courts Maintain Undocumented Immigrants in the Shadows No access Pages 93 - 94
Chapter Twenty-six: The Shameful Case of Latino Republican Leaders No access Pages 95 - 96
Chapter Twenty-seven: Republican Policies and Christian Values No access Pages 97 - 100
Chapter Twenty-eight: An Open Letter to Clinton on Candidate Trouncing Trump in the General Election No access Pages 101 - 104
Chapter Twenty-nine: Urban Planners of the World Unite Against Trump No access Pages 105 - 108
Chapter Thirty: The Hustler No access Pages 109 - 112
Chapter Thirty-one: An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump No access Pages 113 - 114
Chapter Thirty-two: The Hustler 2.0 No access Pages 115 - 118
Chapter Thirty-three: An Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown on California Becoming a Sanctuary State No access Pages 119 - 120
Chapter Thirty-four: The “War on Immigrants” No access Pages 121 - 124
Chapter Thirty-five: On the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970 and the Case of Ruben Salazar No access Pages 125 - 138
Chapter Thirty-six: Advocating for the Immigrant Domestic Workforce No access Pages 139 - 142
Chapter Thirty-seven: President Barack Obama Should’ve Halted Mass Deportations No access Pages 143 - 144
Chapter Thirty-eight: Demanding a Clean DACA Bill, Now! No access Pages 145 - 148
Chapter Thirty-nine: No Deal on “Sh*thole” Border Wall! No access Pages 149 - 152
Chapter Forty: Viva the Scholar-Activist! No access Pages 153 - 156
Chapter Forty-one: In Memory of My Beloved Brother No access Pages 157 - 160
Chapter Forty-two: Trump Epitomizes America’s History of Anti-Mexicanism No access Pages 161 - 164
Chapter Forty-three: A Call for Urban Planning Latina/o Faculty No access Pages 165 - 168
Chapter Forty-four: I Am Not Your “Wetback” No access Pages 169 - 172
Conclusion No access Pages 173 - 176
Works Cited No access Pages 177 - 180
Index No access Pages 181 - 190
About the Author No access Pages 191 - 192
About the Contributors No access Pages 193 - 193