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Week Five & Six: Readings On Labor, Migration, and Community

Luis Moreno | February 27, 2009

For last two weeks, I have been reading the following books: Guerin-Gonzales, Camille. Mexican Workers And American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, And California Farm Labor, 1900-1939. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. García, Mario T. Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans Of El Paso, 1880-1920. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Vargas, Zaragosa. Labor Rights Are Civil [...]

Color Blind, Power Oblivious: Eric Holder and the Whitewashing of Racism

Luis Moreno | February 20, 2009

By TIM WISE It was all too predictable that Attorney General Eric Holder would be attacked for his recent remarks about race in America. To suggest that the nation is still haunted by the specter of racism is unacceptable it seems, especially since, with the election of President Obama, we have ostensibly entered the “post-racial” [...]