4/23/25 Flashcards
What issues do undocumented migrants face in America?
Jan. 2015 11 bills were introduced to restrict their rights + brown people are more likely to be pulled over and interrogated for documentation
What is MIRA?
Mississippi Immigrants Right Alliance is a organization with the goal to protect immigrants from unjust discrimination and unlawful treatment.
How many bills have been deflected by MIRA
over 282 bills were defeated by MIRA
What do McClain and Gay have to say about blacks and Latinos?
blacks and Latinos are constantly fighting for resources
What caused Blacks and Latinos to become allies?
Hurricane Katrina untied Blacks and Latinos to work together to deal with the aftermath of a much bigger issue, over 350K undocumented workers moved to Mississippi after the fact
what legislation did MIRA help pass?
FAIR Act, ALEC, and killing 77 bills, 300 by 2015
Main Point of Chapter 49
Thanks to MIRA, Latinos and Blacks become allied with one another and worked to stop anti-immigrant legislation and fight against racism as a whole.
What is DREAM / “Dreamers”
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, is a United States legislative proposal that would grant temporary conditional residency, with the right to work, for illegal immigrants who entered the United States as minors—and, if they later satisfy further qualifications, they would attain permanent residency.
How does LGBTQ+ representation intersect with un-documentation?
its much more difficult to disclose your identity as an immigrant, the movements focus wasn’t primarily on LGBT issues and their identities have remained invisible and overshadows by there issues of immigrants.
Other issues with intersectionality?
Hispanic households are less likely to be accepting of LGBT members, along with socioeconomic dependence especially on lower class households and risk of more difficulty of gaining citizenship due to worse family connections.
Main Point of Chapter 50
Intersectionality of Dreamers and LGBTQ+ individuals and the issues that come with that
What is “the new civil rights movement”
the rise of Black Lives Matter through the sue of social media
What does BLM also include?
The new BLM focuses heavily on Black women, lesbians and trans individuals, all forms of black intersectionality. This is the polar opposite of the civil rights moment which predominately focused on cis black men due to selling people on equality better.
What allowed for this change in focus?
the rise of social media gives unheard voices a chance to speak and shines a light on systemic issues that happen through multiple counts of intersectionality (ex. black gay trans woman).
