How race is made in America : immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts /
"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 wha...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | American crossroads ;
38. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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.