{"product_id":"those-damned-immigrants-9780814776575","title":"Those Damned Immigrants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino\/a immigration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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,\u003cbr\u003ewas ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat Sucuzhanay into a coma. He died 5 days later. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe incident is one of countless attacks—ranging from physical violence to raids on homes and workplaces to verbal abuse—that Latino\/a immigrants have confronted for generations in America. And these attacks—physical and otherwise—are accepted by a substantial number of American citizens and elected officials, who are virulently opposed to immigrant groups crossing the Mexican border. Quick to cast all Latino\/a immigrants as illegal, opponents have placed undocumented workers at the center of their anti-immigrant movement, and as such, many different types of native Spanish-speakers in this country (legal, illegal, citizen, guest), have been targeted as being responsible for increasing crime rates, a plummeting economy, and an erosion of traditional American values and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThose Damned Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, Ediberto Román takes on critics of Latina\/o immigration, drawing on empirical evidence to refute charges of links between immigration and crime, economic downfall, and a weakening of Anglo culture. Román utilizes government statistics, economic data, historical records, and social science research to provide a counter-narrative to what he argues is a largely one-sided public discourse on Latino\/a immigration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ediberto Román","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274226381051,"sku":"9780814776575","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_7db8f2b5-857d-4534-968c-5f85f03b1237.jpg?v=1771256664","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/those-damned-immigrants-9780814776575","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}