immigration

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  11/17/2022
  

  Immigrant Merchants and Law-and-Order Politics in Detroit

  by Kenneth Alyass

  The Chaldean community of Detroit became a significant middleman-minority through the operation of small stores in working-class and majority-Black neighborhoods. As white flight and disinvestment created increasingly dire conditions, they also became a constituency for aggressive policing. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/17/2022
  

  What American Dream did Asian Immigrants Find in the Southern California Suburbs?

  by James Zarsadiaz

  Asian-American suburbs grew east of Los Angeles in part because developers catered to a growing market and in part because Asian Americans embraced some of the anti-urban tropes common in postwar America. Today conflict still surrounds how much diversity the suburban ideal can accommodate.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/20/2022
  

  Remarks by LA City Council Members Struck at Local Oaxacan Community

  by A.S. Dillingham

  Remarks stigmatizing Mexican immigrants with indigenous ancestry point to the fallacy of a unitary Latino identity and highlight the persistence of racial hierarchies in Latin America. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Currents
  10/19/2022
  

  Today's Conflicts Among American Jews Rooted in Political Origins of Conservative Judaism

  The tendency of many Conservative Jewish leaders to eschew partisan politics isn't a reaction to recent polarization, it's the result of a century old effort by influential donors to the Jewish Theological Seminary to marginalize radical immigrants from American Jewish life. 

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• SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture
  9/29/2022
  

  Mireya Loza's History of Farm Work Will Shape Equity in Agriculture Industry

  “We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/25/2022
  

  When Italian Immigrants were Tricked into Debt Peonage in the Jim Crow South

  A labor agency in Mississippi experimented with a creative, if evil, solution to the problem of Black demands for labor rights at the turn of the 20th century: trick Italian farmers to sign contracts that shackled them with debt to their employers.  

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2022
  

  Governors DeSantis and Abbott Borrow from the Jim Crow Playbook

  by Greta de Jong

  "Immigration scholars have noted how U.S. foreign policies contributed to the poverty and violence in Central and South America that migrants are fleeing. Yet rather than acknowledge this – along with assuming the moral responsibilities it entails – some GOP leaders denigrate and dehumanize refugees to win support from voters."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/15/2022
  

  DeSantis's Stunt Echoes a Cruel Chapter of American History

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The latest immigration stunt shows a Republican party committed to trolling its enemies and disinterested in actual immigration policy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/14/2022
  

  Los Angeles to Memorialize 1871 Anti-Chinese Massacre

  Architect Annie Chu describes the task of using design and space to evoke an emotional connection to the victims of mass violence whose identities and stories have been largely lost. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/16/2022
  

  DeSantis's Martha's Vineyard Stunt Echoes "Reverse Freedom Rides" of Civil Rights Era

  The segregationist White Citizens Councils hoped to use the media to dunk on northern liberals by sending poor African Americans north with false promises of jobs, housing and services. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/2022
  

  Salman Rushdie Changed Everything

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  The novelist's creative brilliance and critical acclaim signaled a moment for south Asian people around the world to see themselves outside the frame of colonialism and to grapple with the subcontinent's ethnic and religious fissures. 

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  8/12/2022
  

  Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Linked Histories of Mexico and the US

  "Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/16/2022
  

  The Disturbing History of Sending Migrants to Other States

  by Hidetaka Hirota

  In the context of intense anti-Irish nativism, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts expelled and deported poor immigrants without due process. 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants

  by Catherine Ceniza Choy

  From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/1/2022
  

  For Decades, Whites Used "Colorblind" Rhetoric to Stall Equality. Now the Right Wing is Dropping the Charade

  LA Times Columnist Jean Guerrero checks with legal historian Ian Haney López about the resurgence of openly white identity politics on the mainstream right as pundits and candidates abandon the idea of protecting a level playing field to say whites need protection.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/4/2022
  

  If "Heathen" Sounds Outdated, Historian Kathryn Gim Lum Says it Still Explains Racism in America

  The concept of heathenism has always served to distinguish Americans as a group deserving of their good fortune and apart from others in need of transformation, either by persuasion or by violence. 

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• SOURCE: Governing
  6/16/2022
  

  A.K. Sandoval-Strausz: Did Latinos Save the American City?

  The historian argues that the "creative class" explanation for urban resurgence focuses on affluent white professionals while ignoring the role of Latino immigrants in revitalizing urban communities. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/15/2022
  

  America Runs on Xenophobia

  by Erika Lee

  Xenophobia's resilience and revival in America is happening because it helps manage the faults and contradictions of major social institutions including capitalism, democracy, and global leadership. 

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• SOURCE: The Drift
  6/9/2022
  

  The Dark Underside of the "Family-Like" Business

  by Erik Baker

  The history of businesses cloaking their labor practices in paternalism is long; the most recent chapter dates back to the spiritual explorations of the 1960s counterculture and the surveillance practices of Henry Ford. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/2022
  

  Reece Jones on How "Great Replacement" Idea Revived

  "Thanks to the great replacement theory, the people that once forcibly colonised much of the rest of the world can cast themselves as oppressed victims."