¡Presente! : Latin@ immigrant voices in the struggle for racial justice

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Label

¡Presente! : Latin@ immigrant voices in the struggle for racial justice

Title remainder

Latin@ immigrant voices in the struggle for racial justice

Title variation

¡Presente!, voces de immigrantes latin@s en la lucha por la justica racial

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Chicano movement -- United States
• Civil rights movements -- United States
• Electronic books
• Emigration and immigration
• Latin Americans -- United States -- Social conditions
• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights
• Mexicans -- United States -- Social conditions
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to national security and raising the specter of a deliberate "browning of America." Left-leaning journalists, on the other hand, foreground victimization, emphasizing the plight of immigrants, stripping them of their agency. Neither captures the range of experiences within undocumented immigrant communities, and both fail to see immigrants as active participants in their own struggle for racial and economic justice. Presente! offers a rare perspective on the immigrant-rights movement, written by immigrant workers themselves. Including a range of essays exploring the intersection of race, class, and immigration in the United States, this anthology challenges its readers to move beyond a "legalization-only" framework and embrace a broader vision for social justice organizing embodied in the work of grassroots organizations across the country resisting state repression, cultivating solidarity, and building alternative models for progressive social change. Offered in a dual-language edition, with a foreword by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzáles. Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project, a Texas based workers' rights organization. Carlos Pérez de Alejo is the executive director of Cooperation Texas, an organization dedicated to the creation of sustainable jobs through the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives. Arnulfo Manríquez is an organizer at Workers Defense Project, where he organizes immigrant construction workers to defend their labor and human rights

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

305.8972073

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult