About the Author
Kim Voss is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coauthor, with Rick Fantasia, of Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (UC Press), coauthor of Inequality by Design, and author of The Making of American Exceptionalism. Irene Bloemraad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (UC Press).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
What Happened? The Historically Unprecedented Mobilizations of Spring 2006
1. The Protests of 2006: What Were They, How Do We Understand Them, Where Do We Go?
Irene Bloemraad, Kim Voss, and Taeku Lee
2. Groundswell Meets Groundwork: Building on the Mobilizations to Empower Immigrant Communities
Ted Wang and Robert C. Winn
Mobilization Dynamics: Why and How the Protests Happened
3. Mobilization en Español: Spanish-Language Radio and the Activation of Political Identities
Ricardo Ramírez
4. Building the Labor-Clergy-Immigrant Alliance
Randy Shaw
5. From Prayer to Protest: The Immigrant Rights Movement and the Catholic Church
Luisa Heredia
6. Mobilizing Marchers in the Mile-High City: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
Lisa M. Martinez
7. Migrant Civic Engagement
Jonathan Fox and Xóchitl Bada
8. Regarding Family: New Actors in the Chicago Protests
Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-González
9. It’s a Family Affair: Intergenerational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests
Irene Bloemraad and Christine Trost
Looking Forward: Whither American Politics and Immigrant Rights Mobilization?
10. LA’s Past, America’s Future? The 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests and Their Antecedents
Ruth Milkman
11. Drawing New Lines in the Sand: Evaluating the Failure of Immigration Reforms from 2006 to the Beginning of the Obama Administration
Louis DeSipio
12. The Efficacy and Alienation of Juan Q. Public: The Immigration Marches and Latino Orientations toward American Political Institutions
Francisco I. Pedraza, Gary M. Segura, and Shaun Bowler
13. Out of the Shadows, into the Light: Questions Raised by the Spring of 2006
Roberto Suro
References
Contributors
Index
