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Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans...

“This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that immigration crackdowns … [have] always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America.” —Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of Four Hundred Souls and Stamped from the Beginning “A damning inquiry into the...

Sundown Towns The warnings were clear. Some people were never meant to stay. For decades, a hidden system of segregation shaped the geography of the United States. In towns across the country, an unwritten rule existed: certain people could work there during the day, but they had to be gone before sunset. These communities became known as sundown towns. Some displayed signs warning travelers not to remain overnight. Others relied on intimidation, policing, and violence to enforce their boundaries. Entire communities were sometimes driven out in a single night and never allowed to return. ...

AbstractLampedusa (Italy) and Lesvos (Greece) have become significant locations where the interaction between migration and tourism is expressed through the presence of volunteer tourism, which, along with supporting migrants, has spawned new practices, such as visiting emblematic sites of migrants’ passage, presence, and death. This study investigates the emergent practices of memorial tourism from the perspective of mobility justice. Specifically, considering this liminal practice, the study seeks an alternative route to the dead-end of political possibilities of volunteer tourism, by ...