Historical Latino rebellions against systemic injustice, paralleling Black communities' struggles, offer a vital, often overlooked context for understanding current Latino-led protests against ICE.

Separating families? That’s just business as usual for the U.S.

From slavery to Japanese internment camps, the government has a long-standing policy of breaking up the family unit

Minian says earlier mass deportation programs in the 1930s and '50s led to widespread abuse, tearing many families apart through violent means that also resulted in the expulsion of many U.S. citizens. “These deportations that Trump is claiming that he will do will have mass implications to our civil rights, and of course to the people who are being deported themselves.”

In The Shadow of Liberty | Ana Raquel Minian | Viking Press (Penguin)

Welcome the Wretched | César Cuahtémoc García Hernández | The New Press

A Place at the Nayarit | Natalia Molina | University of California Press

Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands | Jessica Ordaz | University of Arizona Press

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic | Kevin Kenny | Oxford University Press

Whose America? | María Cristina García & Maddalena Marinari | University of Illinois Press

Detention Empire | Kristina Shull | University of North Carolina Press

Bad Mexicans | Kelly Lytle Hernández | W. W. Norton & Company