From Lynch Mobs to the Deportation State

What is it about?

This article traces the evolution of anti-immigrant movements in the United States from racist street mobs to legally-empowered federal authorities -- and back again.

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Why is it important?

It connects the longer histories of border violence and the growth of the carceral state, bringing together scholarship on the history of deportation and incarceration in the evolution of the modern state.