Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy

by Cristina Beltrán

Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?

More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America's history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517911923
• ISBN13: 9781517911928
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 6.9"