Format:
Online-Ressource (226 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780520280076
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9780520280083
Series Statement:
American crossroads v.38
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Part I. Immigration Regimes I : Mapping Race and CitizenshipPlacing Mexican Immigration within the Larger Landscape of Race Relations in the U.S. -- "What is a White Man?" : The Quest to Make Mexicans Ineligible for U.S. Citizenship -- Birthright Citizenship Beyond Black and White -- Part II. Immigration Regimes II : Making Mexicans Deportable -- Mexicans Suspended in a State of Deportability : Medical Racialization and Immigration Policy in the 1940s -- Deportations in the Urban Landscape -- Epilogue: Making Race in the Twenty-First Century.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520957190
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520280076
Additional Edition:
Print version How race is made in America
Language:
English
Keywords:
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