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

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Label

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

Title remainder

immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts

Statement of responsibility

Natalia Molina

Creator

• Molina, Natalia

Subject

• Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Government policy | History -- 20th century
• Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century
• Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Deportation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans{u2014}from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished{u2014}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{u2014}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

Member of

• American crossroads, 38

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.868/72073

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.M5

LC item number

M587 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

American crossroads

Series volume

38