Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

A collection of short essays and stories, this book primarily focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Accompanied by the brilliant art of Salomon Huerta, the book re-frames, defends, and humanizes los de abajo (those on the bottom).

Alvaro Huerta

List of Figures Foreword by Dr. José Z. Calderón Introduction by Dr. Alvaro Huerta Brief History Notes on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.By Dr. Alvaro Huerta La Realidad: The Realities of Anti-Mexicanism-A Paradigm By Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones Immigration Should be a Basic Human RightBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta The Day I Learned I was Poor and MexicanBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Once Ashamed of My Mexican Parents, but not AnymoreBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta A Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing: Reflections of a Scholar-ActivistBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta "Just Say No" to Senate's "Gang of Eight" Immigration BillBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta No White Christmas for Brown ImmigrantsBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Lessons on Community Organizing in Chicana/o Communities: Educate, Agitate & OrganizeBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Socioeconomic Inequality Impacting Marginalized Communities Must ChangeBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Republican Leaders Will Regret Attacking Latina/o Immigrants By Dr. Alvaro Huerta Scaremongering Over Child Refugees is DeplorableBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Without Hope, Blacks and Latinas/os Will Take to the StreetsBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta El Robo: In Memory of My Mexican MotherBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta La Pistola: In Memory of My Mexican FatherBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Lessons My Mexican Father Taught MeBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta The Day My Mexican Father Met Cesar ChavezBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta A Chicana/o Love Story: Tribute to a Wise and Beautiful ChicanaBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Trump's Racist Comments Help Democrats in the FutureBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta New Republican Xenophobic Policies Will Inevitably Backfire By Dr. Alvaro Huerta Trump Exemplifies True Colors of GOPBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Trump's Mass Deportation Plan Symbolizes White PrivilegeBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta City of Los Angeles Should Regulate Street Vendors By Joaquin Montes Huerta and Dr. Alvaro Huerta Saturday Night Live Must Dump GOP Candidate Donald J. TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta U.S. Courts Maintain Undocumented Immigrants in the ShadowsBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta The Shameful Case of Latino Republican Leaders: Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco RubioBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Republican Policies and Christian Values: Inherent Contradictions?By Dr. Alvaro Huerta An Open Letter to Candidate Clinton on Trouncing Trump in the General ElectionBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Urban Planners Unite Against TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta The Hustler: Trump and the Mean Streets of East Los AngelesBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump: Confessions of an "Anchor Baby"By Dr. Alvaro Huerta The Hustler 2.0: President TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta An Open Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown on California Becoming a Sanctuary StateBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta The "War on Immigrants": Racist Policies in the Era of TrumpBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta On the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970 and the Case of Ruben SalazarBy Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones Advocating for the Immigrant Domestic WorkforceBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta President Barack Obama Should've Halted Mass DeportationsBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Demanding a Clean DACA Bill, Now!By Dr. Alvaro Huerta No Deal on "Sh*thole" Border Wall!By Dr. Alvaro Huerta Viva the Scholar-Activist!By Dr. Alvaro Huerta In Memory of My Beloved Brother: Noel "Nene" HuertaBy Dr. Alvaro Huerta Trump Epitomizes America's History of Anti-Mexicanism By Dr. Alvaro Huerta A Call for Urban Planning Latina/o Faculty: In Memory of Dr. Leo Estrada By Dr. Alvaro Huerta I Am Not Your "Wetback"By Dr. Alvaro Huerta Conclusion by Dr. Alvaro Huerta Works Cited Index About the Author About the Contributors