How Race Is Made in America - Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (Paperback)

"How Race Is Made in America" examines Mexican AmericansOCofrom 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolishedOCoto 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 waysOCothat 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 "t"o apply to different racial groups."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Crossroads, 38
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Natalia Molina
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28008-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-520-28008-3
Barcode:	9780520280083

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