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Book SynopsisIf you knew a runaway slave or an undocumented immigrant, would you tell?
Trade Review"Park proposes a unique and innovative way to approach the quagmire of immigration reform. He uses the framework that Mark Twain used when presenting the dilemma of what is the proper response to a runaway slave and a young abandoned boy. It is Park's contention that there is much to be learned from comparing the current problems of illegal immigrants with those of fugitive slaves in antebellum America... He finds interesting linkages between the past mistreatment of people of color and what is happening today. The author pays some attention to the legal, educational, moral, and labor repercussions of the treatment of 'illegals.' Park's work is timely, well written, and extensively documented. It should find a wide audience among academics and the general population. Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice, January 2014
Table of ContentsPart I STATUS AND ILLEGALITY IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LAW AND CULTURE
1 The Huckleberry Finn Problem
2 Race, Law, and Personhood in Huckleberry Finn
Part II THE COMPANY OF OTHERS
3 Slavery and Wage Slavery
4 Illegal Workers
5 Immigrant Activism in the Shadow of Law
Part III GETTING AN EDUCATION
6 The Bread of Knowledge
7 Race, Immigration, and the Promise of Equality
8 Undocumented and Unafraid
Part IV UNLAWFUL MIGRATIONS IN AMERICAN LAW AND SOCIETY
9 Utopian Visions and the Unlawful Other
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Books Cited
Index
