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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Molina, Natalia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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.