Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This first event in the series features A. Naomi Paik discussing her book Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century.

This is a free event, but RSVP is required.

Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. She deftly demonstrates that attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, and queer and gender nonconforming people. Against this history of barriers and assaults, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary mounts a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all.

A. Naomi Paik is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois and the author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II.

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UC Press Now: Urgent Conversations hosted by Booksmith

• 8/3: A. Naomi Paik / Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
• 8/10: Federico Finchelstein / A Brief History of Fascist Lies
• 8/17: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
• 8/24: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
• 8/31: Sarah Jaquette Ray / A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
• 9/7: Joe Trotter / Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

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This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required.

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