Those Damned Immigrants: America's Hysteria Over Undocumented Immigration

by Ediberto Roman and Michael A. Olivas

Book Overview

Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigration

The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama's election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant,
was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814776574
• ISBN13: 9780814776575
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"