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To Sin Against Hope - How America Has Failed Its Immigrants: A Personal History (Hardcover) Loot Price: R468
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To Sin Against Hope - How America Has Failed Its Immigrants: A Personal History (Hardcover): Alfredo Gutierrez

To Sin Against Hope - How America Has Failed Its Immigrants: A Personal History (Hardcover)

Alfredo Gutierrez

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Alfredo Gutierrez's father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown - the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is at once a personal chronicle and a thought-provoking history, the war on Mexican immigrants has rarely abated. Barack Obama now presides over an immigration policy that is the equal of Herbert Hoover's in its harshness. His family experiences inspired Gutierrez to pursue the life of a Chicano activist. Kicked out of Arizona State University after leading a takeover of the president's office, he later became the majority leader of the Arizona State Senate. Later still, he was a successful political consultant. He remains an activist, and in this engrossing memoir and essay, he both dissects the racism that has animated a century of border policy - including a record number of deportations under Obama - and the timidity of immigrant advocacy organizations today.

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Imprint: Verso Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2013
First published: March 2013
Authors: Alfredo Gutierrez
Dimensions: 215 x 146 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-992-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-84467-992-6
Barcode: 9781844679928

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