How race is made in America : immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts / Natalia Molina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molina, Natalia.

Series:

American crossroads ; 38.

American crossroads ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Deportation.

History.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Race discrimination.

Citizenship.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

United States.

Citizenship--United States--History--20th century.

Race discrimination--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.

Deportation--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014].

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Immigration Regimes I : Mapping Race and Citizenship

Placing Mexican Immigration within the Larger Landscape of Race Relations in the United States

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780520280076

0520280075

9780520280083

0520280083

OCLC:

845085490