The Corridors of Migration Control

On January 17, 1948, funeral home owner M. K. Fritz sat down to read his morning paper in Chicago, Illinois. In it he read about a case of racial discrimination against a Mexican national. He was so enraged by the incident that he mailed the clipping to Miguel Alemán, the president of Mexico, to let...

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Published inMigra p. 125
Main Author Kelly Lytle Hernández
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of California Press 01.04.2010
Edition1
Subjects
Agricultural management
Agricultural workers
Agriculture
Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Biological sciences
Border protection
Borderlands
Buildings
Children
Deportation
Farm workers
Fences
Government
Government services
Human geography
Human migration
Human populations
Illegal immigration
Immigration
Immigration and customs enforcement
Immigration law
International borders
International law
Law
Law enforcement
Minor structures
Persons
Political geography
Political science
Population studies
Social sciences
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Summary:On January 17, 1948, funeral home owner M. K. Fritz sat down to read his morning paper in Chicago, Illinois. In it he read about a case of racial discrimination against a Mexican national. He was so enraged by the incident that he mailed the clipping to Miguel Alemán, the president of Mexico, to let him “get a look at the way people of color are treated here in this country of ours.”¹ Fritz did not understand racial discrimination as an aberration of life in America. “We the Negro people,” he wrote “have been subject to it for a many
ISBN:0520257693
9780520257696