Contents
Preface to the 2018 Edition: Trump and the Failure
of Neoliberal Immigration Reform vii
Preface xix
Part I: “What Is a Vigilante Man?” White Violence in Calfornia History
Mike Davis
Introduction 3
1. Pinkertons, Klansmen, and Vigilantes 7
2. White Savages 13
3. Yellow Peril 19
4. “Swat a Jap” 25
5. The Anti-Filipino Riots 31
6. The IWW versus the KKK 35
7. I n Dubious Battle 45
8. Thank the Vigilantes 51
9. The Zoot Suit Wars 63
10. Beating the UFW 69
11. The Last Vigilantes 75
Part II: Mexico: Caught in the Web of U.S. Empire
Justin Akers Chacón
Introduction 81
12. Conquest Sets the Stage 91
13. Neoliberalism Consumes the “Mexican Miracle” 101
14. From the Maquiladoras to NAFTA: Profiting from Borders 107
Part III: Mexican Workers: The “Other” American Working Class
15. Mexican Workers to the Rescue 117
16. Segregated Workers: Class Struggle in the Fields 123
17. The Bracero Program: A Twentieth-Century Caste System 131
18. Poverty in the Fields: Legacy of the Bracero Program 141
19. Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America 147
Part IV: The War on Immigrants
20. Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor 165
21. The Race and Class Construction
of Immigration Restrictions 173
22. Constructing the “Illegal” Mexican Worker: Racism and Mexican Labor 183
23. Immigration Double Standards 189
24. Militarizing the Border: Death Warrant for Migrant Workers 193
25. Inventing an Invisible Enemy:
September 11 and the War on Immigrants 207
26. The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor 219
27. The Right Wing Calls the Shots 229
28. Terrorists on the Border: The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey 241
Part V: ¡Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras!
29. Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right 253
30. Unions and Immigrant Workers 259
31. Making Borders History 269
32. A New Civil Rights Movement 279
33. Mass Mobilization Defeats Sensenbrenner-King
(HR 4437) 287
34. State Repression of Immigrant Workers 293
35. The Immigrant Rights Movement at the Polls 305
36. The Arizona Laboratory and SB 1070 319
37. S . 744: The Degeneration
of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” 329
38. Immigrant Rights at a Crossroads 341
Notes 359
Index 404
