Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index (pages 273-283).
Contents:
Kindling -- Interlude : white supremacy in El Paso before August 3, 2019 / Diana Martinez -- The lloronx -- Witnessing torture -- Witnessing the Joaquin dead -- Grief and border crossing rage -- On the banality of crossing -- Afterword: Rifling in the unsettling present -- Selected interviews and testimonies: Statement of Barbara Hines, JD ; Father Robert Mosher interview ; Virginia Raymond interview ; Declaration of Luis H. Zayas, PhD.
Summary:
"Unsettling is a sharp, uncompromising interrogation of the transformation of the southern edge of the United States into a zone of migrant sacrifice and suffering, which culminates in a racist mass execution of twenty-two people in August 2019 in El Paso, Texas"--Provided by publisher. On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. In Unsettling, Gilberto Rosas situates this devastating shooting as the latest unsettling consequence of our border crisis and currents of deeply rooted white nationalism embedded in the United States. Tracing strict immigration policies and inhumane border treatment from the Clinton era through Democratic and Republican administrations alike, Rosas shows how the rhetoric around these policies helped lead to the Trump administration's brutal crackdown on migration—and the massacre in El Paso. Rosas draws on poignant stories and compelling testimonies from workers in immigrant justice organizations, federal public defenders, immigration attorneys, and human rights activists to document the cruelties and indignities inflicted on border crossers--Publisher's description.
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