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(0)Reece Jones
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
"A searing indictment of the white racial politics behind American immigration restrictions from Chinese Exclusion through the Trump presidency"--
Donald Trump's mainstreaming of anti-immigrant politics in 2016 was a mere reflection of the ugly norm of the past. Jones traces the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and the racial rejection of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and eventually, immigrants from other...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Late one July night in 2020 in Portland, Oregon, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE stitched onto their uniforms, began snatching people off the street and placing them in unmarked vans. The people targeted were legally protesting as part of a nationwide Black Lives Matter movement. More arrests soon followed. These actions were not done by a group of right-wing terrorists, or the FBI or CIA. They were common practice maneuvers conducted...