ISBN:
9780415658898
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Nation and Its Peoples : Citizens, Denizens, Migrants
DDC:
305.9/069120973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge. Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural discrimination, and the ways in which ""race"" has formally disappeared in the law and yet remains one of the most powerful, underlying, unacknowledged, and often unspoken aspects of debates about citizenship, about membership and national belonging, within immigration politics and policy. This collection of original essays also emphasizes the ne
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Nation and Its Peoples; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustration; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Race and Immigration: An Introduction; Part I History; 1 "The Filipinos Do Not Need Any Encouragement From Americans Now Living": On Dilemmas of Teaching and Being Taught Ethics Under Unethical Conditions; 2 Race, Community, and Activism in Greater Los Angeles: Japanese Americans, African Americans, and the Contested Spaces of Southern California; 3 Race, Immigration Status, and Illegality: Evasion and Empathy in Japanese American History
Description / Table of Contents:
4 "Allow One Photo Per Year": Prison Strikes as Racial ArchivesPart II Race, Agency, Identity; 5 Beyond Whiteness: Asian Americans and Latinos in U.S. Educational Discourse; 6 "Ascriptive" Citizenship and Being American: Race, Birthplace, and Immigrants' Membership in the United States; 7 Making Minorities: Mexican Racialization in the New South; 8 Racializing the High Seas: Filipino Migrants and Global Shipping; Part III Institutions and Structures; 9 Navigating Occupational Health Rights: The Function of Illegality, Language, and Class Inequality in Workers' Compensation
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Tattoos, Stigma, and National Identity Among Guatemalan Deportees11 Informality at Work: Immigrant Employment and Flexible Jobs in Los Angeles; 12 The Shell: An Ethnographic Analysis of Mexican Immigrant Agency; 13 Nation of Immigrants, or Deportation Nation? Analyzing Deportations and Returns in the United States, 1892 to 2010; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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