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Newly Published, From Susan Sontag to the Black Working Class
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
AMERICAN WHITELASH: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, by Wesley Lowery. (Yale, $35.) A historian explains how California “welcomed, honed and legalized” human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized enslavement of Native Americans to forced labor in today’s prisons. RIVERMOUTH: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, by Alejandra Oliva. Reflecting on her family’s fluid relationship to the southern U.S. border and her experience working with asylum seekers, Oliva meditates on the seemingly insurmountable barriers migrants face today.
Persons: Wesley Lowery, Barack Obama, Lowery, Jean Pfaelzer, California “, Itamar Vieira Junior, Johnny Lorenz, Alejandra Oliva, Oliva meditates Organizations: Yale, Astra House Locations: CALIFORNIA, California, Brazil, U.S
On the face of it, the end of Title 42 — reopening the border and an ostensible return to normalcy — may seem like a good thing. I’ve helped asylum seekers fill out their applications in a New York City clinic within their first year in a new home. We must not forget that the United States has legal obligations to provide protection to people who qualify as refugees under international law. The choice to come to the United States is not an easy or uncomplicated one. They are often frustrated and angry at how the United States government has treated them.
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