ISBN:
9780520280076
,
9780520280083
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (226 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
American crossroads
Series Statement:
American Crossroads Ser. v.38
Parallel Title:
Print version How race is made in America
DDC:
305.868/72073
Keywords:
Mexican Americans Civil rights 20th century
;
History
;
Mexican Americans Social conditions 20th century
;
Race discrimination History 20th century
;
Immigrants History 20th century
;
Deportation History 20th century
;
Citizenship History 20th century
;
Citizenship ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Deportation ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Immigrants ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Mexican Americans ; Civil rights ; History ; 20th century
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Mexican Americans ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Race discrimination ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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United States ; Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
;
United States Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
Government policy
;
History
;
United States Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
History
;
United States Race relations 20th century
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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