How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power

Description: How Race Is Made in America by Natalia Molina Examines Mexican immigration - from 1924 when immigration acts drastically reduced immigration to the US to 1965 when many quotas were abolished - to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans-from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished-to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what Natalia Molina describes as an immigration regime, which defined the racial categories that continue to influence perceptions in the United States about Mexican Americans, race, and ethnicity. Molina demonstrates that despite the multiplicity of influences that help shape our concept of race, common themes prevail. Examining legal, political, social, and cultural sources related to immigration, she advances the theory that our understanding of race is socially constructed in relational ways-that is, in correspondence to other groups. Molina introduces and explains her central theory, racial scripts, which highlights the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another. How Race Is Made in America also shows that these racial scripts are easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racial groups. Flap "Molina provides a fresh, sophisticated analysis of the powerful racial scripts generated in twentieth-century US political and legal culture, and of the Mexican populations unique vulnerability in the 1920s and after as eminently deportable. This books importance is sadly substantiated by twenty-first-century headlines about immigration policy, papers please laws, and urban policing. A critical contribution." --Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Whiteness of a Different Color and Barbarian Virtues "Bridging Mexican American history and immigration history, How Race Is Made in America is a fascinating study of how deeply ingrained prejudices structure institutional and social power." --Monica Perales, author of Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community "A compelling, briskly written, deeply researched, and closely argued book that makes signal contributions on many fronts." --David Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History Author Biography Natalia Molina is Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at the University of California, San Diego and author of Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940 (UC Press, 2006) Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Part I. Immigration Regimes I: Mapping Race and Citizenship Chapter One: Placing Mexican Immigration within the Larger Landscape of Race Relations in the U.S. Chapter Two: "What is a White Man?": The Quest to Make Mexicans Ineligible for U.S. Citizenship Chapter Three: Birthright Citizenship Beyond Black and White Part II. Immigration Regimes II: Making Mexicans Deportable Chapter Four: Mexicans Suspended in a State of Deportability: Medical Racialization and Immigration Policy in the 1940s Chapter Five: Deportations in the Urban Landscape Epilogue: Making Race in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Review "Highly recommended." CHOICE "Natalia Molinas examination of racial construction of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans is notable and thorough ... Terms are well defined, arguments are soundly presented, and commonly known historical events are explained." -- Patrick Lukens American Historical Review "Molina has written a formidable and accessible monograph that unravels the process of race-making to show that the question of belonging requires a relational approach... Invaluable." -- Chantel Rodriguez Western Historical Quarterly Review Quote "Natalia Molinas examination of racial construction of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans is notable and thorough . . . Terms are well defined, arguments are soundly presented, and commonly known historical events are explained." Details ISBN0520280083 Author Natalia Molina Short Title HOW RACE IS MADE IN AMER Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520280083 ISBN-13 9780520280083 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 38 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2014-01-01 AU Release Date 2014-01-01 NZ Release Date 2014-01-01 US Release Date 2014-01-01 Pages 232 Series American Crossroads Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-01 DEWEY 305.800973 Illustrations 4 b-w photographs Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159726313;

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