David Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness
Against The Current vol. 125
Poitevin, René Francisco
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/184
Date Written: 2006-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13295
A disturbing aftermath of the pro-immigrant demonstrations recently held in dozens of cities across the United States, besides the obvious anti-immigrant backlash, has been the increase in Black/Brown tensions. Particularly alarming has been the way in which Latinos are being accused, not only by conservatives but by Progressives as well, of being the latest permutation of a long history of immigrant groups arriving to this country and making it, to quote Toni Morrison, “on the backs of Blacks.”
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