{"product_id":"9781479818372","title":"Those Damned Immigrants: America's Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration","description":"The 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, was 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.  The 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.  In \u003cem\u003eThose Damned Immigrants\u003c\/em\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.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141867749616,"sku":"9781479818372","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479818372_p0.jpg?v=1763618313","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479818372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}