Rallying for Immigrant Rights : the Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America /
"From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the United States to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most significant events of political activism in the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; What Happened?: The Historically Unprecedented Mobilizations of Spring 2006; 1: The Protests of 2006: What Were They, How Do We Understand Them, Where Do We Go?; 2: Groundswell Meets Groundwork: Building on the Mobilizations to Empower Immigrant Communities; Mobilization Dynamics: Why and How the Protests Happened; 3: Mobilization en Español: Spanish-Language Radio and the Activation of Political Identities; 4: Building the Labor-Clergy-Immigrant Alliance; 5: From Prayer to Protest: The Immigrant Rights Movement and the Catholic Church.
- 6: Mobilizing Marchers in the Mile-High City: The Role of Community-Based Organizatio Migrant Civic Engagement; 8: Regarding Family: New Actors in the Chicago Protests; 9: It's a Family Affair: Intergenerational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests; Looking Forward: Whither American Politics and Immigrant Rights Mobilization?; 10: L.A.'s Past, America's Future?: The 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests and Their Antecedents; 11: Drawing New Lines in the Sand: Evaluating the Failure of Immigration Reforms from 2006 to the Beginning of the Obama Administration.
- 12: The Efficacy and Alienation of Juan Q. Public: The Immigration Marches and Latino Orientations toward American Political Institutions13: Out of the Shadows, into the Light: Questions Raised by the Spring of 2006; References; Contributors; Index.
