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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality
Trade ReviewAn urgent collection of essays by both activists and scholars that puts legislative and judicial histories into dialogue with activists' struggles to bring about social justice for immigrant communities. Its ever-present focus on social justice connects the specificity of individual historical struggles to broader political aspirations. -- Wendy Kozol,Oberlin College
Impressive, provocative and smart. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship is breathtaking in its timeliness and its broad scope. -- Erika Lee,author of At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
In the end, the most compelling scholarship lays bare the paradoxes of the past. The best historians go beyond identifying such paradoxes to redress gaps in analysis that reshape the field, and in Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship, Buff skillfully does this. * The Journal of American History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights Rachel Ida Buff Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance 1. John S. W. Park2. Connie G. Oxford3. Scott Long, Jessica Stern, and Adam Francouer4. Eunice Hyunhye ChoPart II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants 5. Dustin Tahmakera6. Robert Samuel Smith, Seneca Vaught, and Babacar M'Baye7. Isabel Guzman Molina8. Lisa Marie CachoPart III: Immigrant Acts 9. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas10. Christine Neumann-Ortiz11. Glenn OmatsuPart IV: Questions of Democracy 12. Victor C. Romero13. Rachel Ida Buff 14. Jeanne Petit15. Fred Tsao16. David ColePart V: Afterwords 17. Donald Pease18. Monisha Das GuptaAbout the Contributors Index
