Source: Labor & Employment Committee, National Lawyers Guild
AIWA Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
310 Eighth Street #301
Oakland, CA 94607
W:(510) 268-0192, W-Fax:(510) 268-0194
info@aiwa.org
www.aiwa.org
Black Workers for Justice- Worker Education Project
PO Box 1863
Rocky Mount, NC 27802
W:(919) 977-8162
bwfj@igc.org
www.bwfj.org
Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE)
1 Chick Springs Road, Suite 110-B
Greenville, SC 29609
W: (864) 235-2926
Fax: (864) 235-9691
www.cafesc.org
Casa De Maryland- Casa of Maryland, Inc.
310 Tulip Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Contact: Guadalupe Adams
Tel.(310) 431-0110 Fax:(310) 431-4179
www.casademaryland.org
Casa Latina
220 Blanchard Street
Seattle, WA 98121
Hillary Stern. Hilstern@casa-latina.org
Tel.(206) 956-0779 Fax:(206) 956-0780
www.casa-latina.org
Central Texas Immigrant Workers Rights Center
510 South Congress Ave., Suite 206
Austin, TX 78704
W: (512) 474-0007
Fax: (512) 474-0008
bill@equaljusticecenter.org
www.equaljusticecenter.org
Centro Comunitario Juan Diego
8812 S Commercial Avenue
Chicago, IL 60617
W:(773) 731-0109, W-Fax:(773) 731-0119
info@ccjuandiego.org
www.ccJuanDiego.org
Centro Cultural
1110 North Adair/ P.O. Box 708
Cornelius, OR 97113
W: (503) 359-0446
Fax: (503) 357-0183
arturo@centrocultural.org
www.centrocultural.org
El Centro Humanitario de Trabajadores- The Humanitarian Center for Workers/ AFSC
901 West 14th Avenue Suite 7
Denver, CO 80204
Contact: Minsun Ji
Tel.(303) 623-3464
Fax:(303) 623-3492
www.centrohumanitario.net
Centro Legal de la Raza
1001 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
Contact: Patricia Loya
Tel.(510) 437-1555 or (510) 437-1554
Fax:(510) 437-9164
www.centrolegal.org
Chinese Staff & Workers Association
PO Box 13040
New York, NY 10013
W:(212) 619-7979
cswa@cswa.org
www.cswa.org
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
2533 West 3rd Street, Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Contact: Antonio Bernabe & Angelica Salas
Tel.(213) 353-1783 Fax: (213) 353-1344
abernabe@chirla.org
asalas@chirla.org
www.chirla.org
DC Employment Justice Center
1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036-1712
W: (202) 828-9675
Fax: (202) 828-9190
justice@dcejc.org
www.dcejc.org
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE)
340 Lockwood Street
Providence, RI 02907
W: (401) 351-6960
Fax: (401) 351-6977
dare@daretowin.org
www.daretowin.org
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
PO Box 450, 50 Meridian Street, Suite B-1
East Boston, MA 02128
W: (617) 567-2750
Fax: (617) 569-5946
ebecc.admin@verizon.net
www.ebecc.org
Fuerza Unida
710 New Laredo
San Antonio, TX 78211
W:(210) 927-2294, W-Fax:(210) 927-2295
fuerzaunid@aol.com
www.lafuerzaunida.org
Garment Worker Center
1250 S Los Angeles Street # 206
Los Angeles, CA 90015
W:(213) 748-5866, W-Fax:(213) 748-5876
www.garmentworkercenter.org
Gulfon Area Neighborhood Organization- GANO
6006 Bellaire, Suite 100
Houston, TX 77081
Contact: Nelson Reyes
Tel.(713) 665-1284 Fax: (713) 665-7967
Hispanic Resource Center of Larchmont & Mamaroneck
PO Box 312
134 Center Avenue
Mamaroneck, NY 10543
Contact: Harold Lasso
W:(914) 835-1512
Hispanic Westchester Coalition
46 Waller Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
W:(914) 948-8466
http://www.villageteam.org/WHC.htm
Iglesia San Pedro
450 S. Stage Coach
Lane Fallbrook, CA 92028
Contact: Father Edward Kaicher & Mario Salgado
Tel.(760) 728-7034
Immigrant Workers' Resource Center
25 West Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
W: (617) 542-3342
Fax: (617) 451-0496
Injured Workers' Organizing Project
PO Box 12292
Portland, OR 97212
W:(503) , W-Fax:(503) 236-0835
woc@aracnet.com
Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA)
1565 West 14th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tel.(213) 252-2952 Fax: (213) 252-2953
Contact: Suzanne Foster & Carlos Preza
www.idepsca.org
Interfaith Worker Justice
1020 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, 4th floor
Chicago, IL 60660
W: (773) 728-8400
Fax: (773) 728-8409
www.iwj.org/wcn/
Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates (KIWA) of LA
3465 W 8th Street 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90005
W:(213) 738-9050, W-Fax:(213)738-9919
kiwa@kiwa.org
www.kiwa.org
Latin American Workers' Project
Projecto de los Trabajadores Latinoamericanos (PTLA)
840 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11206
W:(718)486-0800, W-Fax:(718) 486-3835
trabajadores@msn.com
Maine Rural Workers Coalition
145 Lisbon St., 2nd Floor
Lewiston, ME 04240
W: (207) 753-1922
Fax: (207) 753-1226
mrwc@ime.net
www.ime.net/~mrwc
Make the Road by Walking
301 Grove Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
W:(718) 418-7690, W-Fax:(718) 855-2484
www.maketheroad.org
Malibu Community Labor Exchange
23595 Civic Center Way
Malibu, CA 90265
Contacts: Mona Loo: malibumona@charter.net
Oscar Mondragon: alwaysreadyltd@juno.com
Tel. (310) 457-1616 or (310) 317-4717
Fax:(310) 457-8684
www.malibulaborexchange.org
Miami Workers Center
6127 NW 7th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
W: (305) 759-8717
Fax: (305) 759-8718
info@theworkerscenter.org
Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
213 Main Street
Greenville, MS 38701
W: (662) 334-1122
Fax: (662) 334-1274
rightsms@bellsouth.net
www.msworkerscenter.org
La Mujer Obrera
2000 Texas Avenue
El Paso, TX 799901
www.mujerobrera.org
National Day Labor Organizing Network
NOTE: this is a network, not an individual worker center
www.ndlon.org
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
59 Hester Street
New York, NY 10002
W:(212) 358-0295
www.nmass.org/nmass/index.html
NCOSH North Carolina
PO Box 2514
Durham, NC 27715
W:(919) 286-9249, W-fax:(919) 286-4857
taoc99@bellsouth.net
www.ncosh.org
Neighbor's Link
27 Columbus Avenue
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
W:(914) 666-3410
www.neighborslink.org
North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE)
33 Harrison Ave., 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
W: (617) 482-6300
Fax: (617) 482-7300
NOTE: this is a network, not an individual worker center
www.fairjobs.org
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
32 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Email: power@unite-to-fight.org
W: (415) 864-8372
Fax: (415) 864-8373
www.fairwork.org
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
1201 Chestnut Street, Suite 702
Philadelphia, PA 19107
W: (215) 557-0822
Fax: (215) 557-6981
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste
300 Young Street
Woodburn, OR 97071
W: (503) 982-0243
farmworkerunion@pcun.org
www.pcun.org
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
PO Box 2469
Pomona, CA 91796
W:(909) 607-8183
www.pomonadaylabor.org
La Raza Centro Legal/ San Francisco Day Laborer Program
474 Valencia Street, Suite 295
San Francisco, CA 94103
Contact: Renee Saucedo & Eduardo Paloma
(415) 575-3500 ext. 14 or (415) 252-5375 Fax: (415) 255-7593
Email: renee@lrcl.org & daylabor@lrcl.org
www.lrcl.org
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
99 Hudson Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
W:(212) 343-1771
www.rocny.org
San Lucas Workers Group
2914 West North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
W:(773) 227-6633
volunteer@sanlucasworkers.com
www.sanlucasworkers.com
Southerners for Economic Justice
331 Main Street, Box 38
Durham, NC 27701
W: (919) 401-5907
Fax: (919) 401-9708
Southwest Center for Economic Integrity
P.O. Box 41972
Tucson, AZ 85717
W: (520) 882-2165
info@economicintegrity.org
www.economicintegrity.org
Tonatierra
PO Box 24009
Phoenix, AZ 85074
tona@tonatierra.org
www.tonatierra.org
Union Latina de Chicago
1619 West 19 Street
Chicago, IL 60608
W:(312) 491-9044
Vermont Workers' Center
P.O. Box 883
Montpelier, VT 05601
W: (802) 229-0009
info@workerscenter.org
www.workerscenter.org
VOZ
330 South East 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214
W:(503) 233-6787, W-fax:(503) 232-6449
www.portlandvoz.org
Wind of the Spirit
PO Box 9225
Morristown, NJ 07963
W:(973) 538-2035, W-fax:(973) 538-1082
Worker Center at Calvary Church
1880 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94040
W:(650) 938-1298, W-fax:(650) 938-1915
Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL)
P.O. Box 345
Helena, MT 59624
(406) 495-0497
www.weelempowers.org
Workplace Project - Centro de Derechos Laborales
91 North Franklin Street #207
Hampstead, NY 11550
W:(516) 565-5377, W-fax:(516) 565-5470
workplace@igc.org
www.americas.org
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South Carolina Texas Vermont Washington
Arizona
Southwest Center for Economic Integrity
P.O. Box 41972
Tucson, AZ 85717
W: (520) 882-2165
info@economicintegrity.org
www.economicintegrity.org
Tonatierra
PO Box 24009
Phoenix, AZ 85074
tona@tonatierra.org
www.tonatierra.org
California
AIWA Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
310 Eighth Street #301
Oakland, CA 94607
W:(510) 268-0192, W-Fax:(510) 268-0194
info@aiwa.org
www.aiwa.org
Centro Legal de la Raza
1001 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601
Contact: Patricia Loya
Tel.(510) 437-1555 or (510) 437-1554
Fax:(510) 437-9164
www.centrolegal.org
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
2533 West 3rd Street, Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Contact: Antonio Bernabe & Angelica Salas
Tel.(213) 353-1783 Fax: (213) 353-1344
abernabe@chirla.org
asalas@chirla.org
www.chirla.org
Garment Worker Center
1250 S Los Angeles Street # 206
Los Angeles, CA 90015
W:(213) 748-5866, W-Fax:(213) 748-5876
www.garmentworkercenter.org
Iglesia San Pedro
450 S. Stage Coach
Lane Fallbrook, CA 92028
Contact: Father Edward Kaicher & Mario Salgado
Tel.(760) 728-7034
Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA)
1565 West 14th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tel.(213) 252-2952 Fax: (213) 252-2953
Contact: Suzanne Foster & Carlos Preza
www.idepsca.org
Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates (KIWA) of LA
3465 W 8th Street 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90005
W:(213) 738-9050, W-Fax:(213)738-9919
kiwa@kiwa.org
www.kiwa.org
Malibu Community Labor Exchange
23595 Civic Center Way
Malibu, CA 90265
Contacts: Mona Loo: malibumona@charter.net
Oscar Mondragon: alwaysreadyltd@juno.com
Tel. (310) 457-1616 or (310) 317-4717
Fax:(310) 457-8684
www.malibulaborexchange.org
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
32 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Email: power@unite-to-fight.org
W: (415) 864-8372
Fax: (415) 864-8373
www.fairwork.org
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
PO Box 2469
Pomona, CA 91796
W:(909) 607-8183
www.pomonadaylabor.org
La Raza Centro Legal/ San Francisco Day Laborer Program
474 Valencia Street, Suite 295
San Francisco, CA 94103
Contact: Renee Saucedo & Eduardo Paloma
(415) 575-3500 ext. 14 or (415) 252-5375 Fax: (415) 255-7593
Email: renee@lrcl.org
daylabor@lrcl.org
www.lrcl.org
Worker Center at Calvary Church
1880 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94040
W:(650) 938-1298, W-fax:(650) 938-1915
Colorado
El Centro Humanitario de Trabajadores- The Humanitarian Center for Workers/ AFSC
901 West 14th Avenue Suite 7
Denver, CO 80204
Contact: Minsun Ji
Tel.(303) 623-3464
Fax:(303) 623-3492
www.centrohumanitario.net
District of Columbia
DC Employment Justice Center
1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036-1712
W: (202) 828-9675
Fax: (202) 828-9190
justice@dcejc.org
www.dcejc.org
Florida
Miami Workers Center
6127 NW 7th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
W: (305) 759-8717
Fax: (305) 759-8718
info@theworkerscenter.org
Illinois
Centro Comunitario Juan Diego
8812 S Commercial Avenue
Chicago, IL 60617
W:(773) 731-0109, W-Fax:(773) 731-0119
info@ccjuandiego.org
www.ccJuanDiego.org
Interfaith Worker Justice
1020 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, 4th floor
Chicago, IL 60660
W: (773) 728-8400
Fax: (773) 728-8409
www.nicwj.org
San Lucas Workers Group
2914 West North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
W:(773) 227-6633
volunteer@sanlucasworkers.com
www.sanlucasworkers.com
Union Latina de Chicago
1619 West 19 Street
Chicago, IL 60608
W:(312) 491-9044
Maine
Maine Rural Workers Coalition
145 Lisbon St., 2nd Floor
Lewiston, ME 04240
W: (207) 753-1922
Fax: (207) 753-1226
mrwc@ime.net
www.ime.net/~mrwc
Maryland
Casa De Maryland- Casa of Maryland, Inc.
310 Tulip Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Contact: Guadalupe Adams
Tel.(310) 431-0110 Fax:(310) 431-4179
www.casademaryland.org
Massachusetts
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
PO Box 450, 50 Meridian Street, Suite B-1
East Boston, MA 02128
W: (617) 567-2750
Fax: (617) 569-5946
ebecc.admin@verizon.net
www.ebecc.org
Immigrant Workers' Resource Center
25 West Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
W: (617) 542-3342
Fax: (617) 451-0496
Mississippi
Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
213 Main Street
Greenville, MS 38701
W: (662) 334-1122
Fax: (662) 334-1274
rightsms@bellsouth.net
www.msworkerscenter.org
Montana
Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL)
P.O. Box 345
Helena, MT 59624
(406) 495-0497
www.weelempowers.org
New Jersey
Wind of the Spirit
PO Box 9225
Morristown, NJ 07963
W:(973) 538-2035, W-fax:(973) 538-1082
New York
Chinese Staff & Workers Association
PO Box 13040
New York, NY 10013
W:(212) 619-7979
cswa@cswa.org
www.cswa.org
Hispanic Resource Center of Larchmont & Mamaroneck
PO Box 312
134 Center Avenue
Mamaroneck, NY 10543
Contact: Harold Lasso
W:(914) 835-1512
Hispanic Westchester Coalition
46 Waller Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
W:(914) 948-8466
http://www.villageteam.org/WHC.htm
Latin American Workers' Project
Projecto de los Trabajadores Latinoamericanos (PTLA)
840 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11206
W:(718)486-0800, W-Fax:(718) 486-3835
trabajadores@msn.com
Make the Road by Walking
301 Grove Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
W:(718) 418-7690, W-Fax:(718) 855-2484
www.maketheroad.org
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
59 Hester Street
New York, NY 10002
W:(212) 358-0295
www.nmass.org/nmass/index.html
Neighbor's Link
27 Columbus Avenue
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
W:(914) 666-3410
www.neighborslink.org
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
99 Hudson Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
W:(212) 343-1771
www.rocny.org
Workplace Project - Centro de Derechos Laborales
91 North Franklin Street #207
Hampstead, NY 11550
W:(516) 565-5377, W-fax:(516) 565-5470
workplace@igc.org
www.americas.org
North Carolina
Black Workers for Justice- Worker Education Project
PO Box 1863
Rocky Mount, NC 27802
W:(919) 977-8162
bwfj@igc.org
www.bwfj.org
NCOSH North Carolina
PO Box 2514
Durham, NC 27715
W:(919) 286-9249, W-fax:(919) 286-4857
taoc99@bellsouth.net
www.ncosh.org
Southerners for Economic Justice
331 Main Street, Box 38
Durham, NC 27701
W: (919) 401-5907
Fax: (919) 401-9708
Oregon
Centro Cultural
1110 North Adair/ P.O. Box 708
Cornelius, OR 97113
W: (503) 359-0446
Fax: (503) 357-0183
arturo@centrocultural.org
www.centrocultural.org
Injured Workers' Organizing Project
PO Box 12292
Portland, OR 97212
W:(503) 236-0825, W-Fax:(503) 236-0835
woc@aracnet.com
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste
300 Young Street
Woodburn, OR 97071
W: (503) 982-0243
farmworkerunion@pcun.org
www.pcun.org
VOZ
330 South East 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214
W:(503) 233-6787, W-fax:(503) 232-6449
www.portlandvoz.org
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
1201 Chestnut Street, Suite 702
Philadelphia, PA 19107
W: (215) 557-0822
Fax: (215) 557-6981
Rhode Island
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE)
340 Lockwood Street
Providence, RI 02907
W: (401) 351-6960
Fax: (401) 351-6977
dare@daretowin.org
www.daretowin.org
South Carolina
Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE)
1 Chick Springs Road, Suite 110-B
Greenville, SC 29609
Fax: (864) 235-9691
www.cafesc.org
Texas
Central Texas Immigrant Workers Rights Center
510 South Congress Ave., Suite 206
Austin, TX 78704
W: (512) 474-0007
Fax: (512) 474-0008
bill@equaljusticecenter.org
www.equaljusticecenter.org
Fuerza Unida
710 New Laredo
San Antonio, TX 78211
W:(210) 927-2294, W-Fax:(210) 927-2295
fuerzaunid@aol.com
www.lafuerzaunida.org
Gulfon Area Neighborhood Organization- GANO
6006 Bellaire, Suite 100
Houston, TX 77081
Contact: Nelson Reyes
Tel.(713) 665-1284 Fax: (713) 665-7967 La Mujer Obrera
2000 Texas Avenue
El Paso, TX 799901
www.mujerobrera.org
Vermont
Vermont Workers' Center
P.O. Box 883
Montpelier, VT 05601
W: (802) 229-0009
info@workerscenter.org
www.workerscenter.org
Washington
Casa Latina
220 Blanchard Street
Seattle, WA 98121
Hillary Stern. Hilstern@casa-latina.org
Tel.(206) 956-0779 Fax:(206) 956-0780
www.casa-latina.org
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Worker centers: Organizing communities at the edge of the dream
By Janice Fine | December 13, 2005
Useful Quotes & Figure
"One such emergent institution that shows considerable promise is worker centers, which have grown from five centers in 1992 to at least 139 in over 80 U.S. cities, towns, and rural areas across 32 states (Figure A). These centers have emerged as central components of the immigrant community infrastructure and are playing an indispensable role in helping immigrants navigate the world of work in the United States. They are gateway organizations that provide information and training in workers’ rights, employment, labor and immigration law, legal services, the English language, and many other programs. They represent a new generation of mediating institutions that are integrating low-wage workers into American civic life and facilitating collective deliberation, education, and action. Worker centers provide low-wage workers a range of opportunities for expressing their “collective voice” as well as for taking collective action."
http://www.epi.org/publication/bp159/
Useful Quotes & Figure
"One such emergent institution that shows considerable promise is worker centers, which have grown from five centers in 1992 to at least 139 in over 80 U.S. cities, towns, and rural areas across 32 states (Figure A). These centers have emerged as central components of the immigrant community infrastructure and are playing an indispensable role in helping immigrants navigate the world of work in the United States. They are gateway organizations that provide information and training in workers’ rights, employment, labor and immigration law, legal services, the English language, and many other programs. They represent a new generation of mediating institutions that are integrating low-wage workers into American civic life and facilitating collective deliberation, education, and action. Worker centers provide low-wage workers a range of opportunities for expressing their “collective voice” as well as for taking collective action."
http://www.epi.org/publication/bp159/
New York's Latino Wokers Center
Useful Quotes:
"But even assuming that workers organizing with the Center in a specific shop could win a contract, that hardly ends the debate over strategy and organizing models. Does anyone really believe that an organizing strategy based on collective bargaining and contract administration, which must assume a stable, capital-labor relationship, can effectively remedy the problems facing immigrant workers in the fiercely competitive, capital-poor, totally unregulated world of New York City's underground economy? Surely, something more is needed. And what about the myriad social problems immigrant workers face-lack of jobs, social service cuts, INS raids, xenophobic campaigns against immigrants? Workers' issues don't end at the workplace door."
"How can we build a movement that can fight for and win what we all need-secure jobs, just wages, quality healthcare, safe neighborhoods, freedom from discrimination and xenophobia? It's a long way from New York City's underground economy to an answer to these questions. We'll just have to keep organizing until we get there."
"Workers' centers based in immigrant communities include New York's Chinese Staff and Workers Association, the Workplace Project, SAKHI for South Asian Women, and the Independent Farmworkers Center, California's Korean Immigrant Women's Advocates, Asian Immigrant Women's Advocates, Texas' La Mujer Obrera, Florida's Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Massachusetts' Immigrant Worker Resource Center"
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/783
"But even assuming that workers organizing with the Center in a specific shop could win a contract, that hardly ends the debate over strategy and organizing models. Does anyone really believe that an organizing strategy based on collective bargaining and contract administration, which must assume a stable, capital-labor relationship, can effectively remedy the problems facing immigrant workers in the fiercely competitive, capital-poor, totally unregulated world of New York City's underground economy? Surely, something more is needed. And what about the myriad social problems immigrant workers face-lack of jobs, social service cuts, INS raids, xenophobic campaigns against immigrants? Workers' issues don't end at the workplace door."
"How can we build a movement that can fight for and win what we all need-secure jobs, just wages, quality healthcare, safe neighborhoods, freedom from discrimination and xenophobia? It's a long way from New York City's underground economy to an answer to these questions. We'll just have to keep organizing until we get there."
"Workers' centers based in immigrant communities include New York's Chinese Staff and Workers Association, the Workplace Project, SAKHI for South Asian Women, and the Independent Farmworkers Center, California's Korean Immigrant Women's Advocates, Asian Immigrant Women's Advocates, Texas' La Mujer Obrera, Florida's Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Massachusetts' Immigrant Worker Resource Center"
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/783
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Ethnicity, Inc.
Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009.
Annotation:
Useful Quotes:
"This is hardly unprecedented: the claim of sovereign autonomy by indigenous tribes as a rhetoric of refusal in their dealings with the US government runs deep into the archaeology of modern American Racial politics. And up against the liberal ideal of an American nationhood founded, constitutionally, on equal, horizontal citizenship under one law" (76).
"not least by deploying space-time vacuums in existing jurisprudential geographies in order to create temporary terrains of immunity for themselves" (79).
"In the process, too, each has, without necessarily being aware of it, naturalized the trope of identity around which their rights have come to adhere" (115).
"Does ID-ology clothe itself in a neoliberal sense of the natural, the ineluctable, the right-ful. And of private property as an elemental fact of being, individual and collective" (115).
Annotation:
Useful Quotes:
"This is hardly unprecedented: the claim of sovereign autonomy by indigenous tribes as a rhetoric of refusal in their dealings with the US government runs deep into the archaeology of modern American Racial politics. And up against the liberal ideal of an American nationhood founded, constitutionally, on equal, horizontal citizenship under one law" (76).
"not least by deploying space-time vacuums in existing jurisprudential geographies in order to create temporary terrains of immunity for themselves" (79).
"In the process, too, each has, without necessarily being aware of it, naturalized the trope of identity around which their rights have come to adhere" (115).
"Does ID-ology clothe itself in a neoliberal sense of the natural, the ineluctable, the right-ful. And of private property as an elemental fact of being, individual and collective" (115).
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