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Against the deportation terror : organizing for immigrant rights in the twentieth century

Title

Against the deportation terror : organizing for immigrant rights in the twentieth century / Rachel Ida Buff.

Author

Buff, Rachel, 1961-

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
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Description

286 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

Despite being characterized as a "nation of immigrants," the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with "new" Latino and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s.Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called "the deportation terror." Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organizing even during periods of protracted repression.By tracing the work of the ACPFB and its allies over half a century, Against the Deportation Terror provides important historical precedent for contemporary immigrant rights organizing. Its lessons continue to resonate today.

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Uniform Title

Insubordinate spaces.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-276) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the subaltern past of immigrant rights -- Aliens, refugees, citizens: the American Committee for the Protection of the foreign born, 1933-1959 -- Becoming alien: the march inland blows up the Cold War space-time continuum -- Ports of entry, exclusion, and removal: "alien" seamen -- Counterinsurgencies: global militarism and immigrant rights in Los Angeles -- "Creating dangerously": foreign-born writers and crimes of persuation -- Th Names of the Lost: Cold War deportation cases in the mass media -- Repurposing immigrant rights advocacy, 1959-1982 -- Conclusion: the subaltern futures of immigrant rights.

Call Number

JFE 18-1639

ISBN

9781439915349
1439915342
9781439915332
1439915334
9781439915356
1439915350

LCCN

2017012956

OCLC

980096833

Author

Buff, Rachel, 1961- author.

Title

Against the deportation terror : organizing for immigrant rights in the twentieth century / Rachel Ida Buff.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Insubordinate spaces

Insubordinate spaces.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-276) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Buff, Rachel, 1961- author. Against the deportation terror Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017 9781439915356 (DLC) 2017022024

Research Call Number

JFE 18-1639

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