@article{1480134,
      recid = {1480134},
      author = {Román, Ediberto,  and Olivas, Michael A., },
      title = {Those Damned Immigrants : America's Hysteria over  Undocumented Immigration /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans'  fear of Latino/a immigrationThe 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 Those Damned Immigrants, 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480134},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814776575.001.0001},
}