Graffiti on a stretch of border fencing between the US and Mexico calls for an end to the incarceration of immigrants. Courtesy of Christoph Buchel/Creative Commons. By María Cristina García, Adam Goodman, Erika Lee, Maddalena Marinari, and Evan Taparata *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border…
A meme captures the absurdity of a Fox News gaffe that described El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as "3 Mexican Countries." Courtesy of Dispropaganda.com. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* In today's immigration discourse, history seems to be made…
A War Relocation Authority Center in Manzanar, CA where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II. Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* “The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized…
An 1899 political cartoon depicts Uncle Sam "holding up" racialized representations of individuals from parts of the world subjected to US imperial intervention at the turn of the 20th century. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* “Give me your tired, your poor…,” reads a plaque…
Protestors outside the Theodore Levin US Courthouse in Detroit, MI rally in support of Iraqi nationals charged with deportation. Courtesy of Human Rights Watch. *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border is the Crisis" Series* Recently, there has been a dizzying number of immigration…