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Virtual Event – Adam Goodman

June 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Adam Goodman, author of The Deportation Machine, for a virtual author event.

“The Deportation Machine examines how immigration policies and practices have been shaped as much by those who interpret, administer, execute and enforce the laws as by those who write them. . . . Although these measures may appear extreme, distasteful and even un-American, they are, Goodman reminds us, a continuation rather than a deviation from past practices.” – David Nasaw, New York Times Book Review

This event will be hosted on the Zoom platform, to register in advance click here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event on Monday June 29 at 7:00 central.

You can purchase a copy of The Deportation Machine here: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-deportation-machine/138?cs=true or in the store.

About The Deportation Machine

Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government’s systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. This provocative, eye-opening book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time.

In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. He reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns. Goodman uncovers the machine’s three primary mechanisms–formal deportations, voluntary departures, and self-deportations–and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion.

This revelatory book chronicles the devastating human costs of deportation and the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the machine and redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship.

Adam Goodman is assistant professor of history and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

Details

Date:
June 29, 2020
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

Magic City Books
221 E. Archer St.
Tulsa, OK 74103 United States