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How race is made in America : immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts
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How race is made in America : immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts / Natalia Molina.
ISBN
9780520280076 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0520280075 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780520280083 (paper acid-free paper)
0520280083 (paper acid-free paper)
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Physical Description
207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Immigration Regimes I : Mapping Race and Citizenship
Placing 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.
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