How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the

How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (American Crossroads Book 38)

How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americansâ€”from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolishedâ€”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 waysâ€”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.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-01
Format	Kindle eBook

How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (American Crossroads Book 38)