Race Migrations - Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race (Paperback)

In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race--for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an American idea about race does not mean abandoning earlier ideas. New racial schemas transfer across borders and cultures spread between sending and host countries.
Behind many current debates on immigration is the question of how Latinos will integrate and where they fit into the U.S. racial structure. "Race Migrations" shows that these migrants increasingly see themselves as a Latino racial group. Although U.S. race relations are becoming more "Latin Americanized" by the presence of Latinos and their views about race, race in the home countries is also becoming more "Americanized" through the cultural influence of those who go abroad. Ultimately, Roth shows that several systems of racial classification and stratification co-exist in each place, in the minds of individuals and in their shared cultural understandings of "how race works."

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	June 2012
Authors:	Wendy Roth
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 458mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-7796-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-7796-9
Barcode:	9780804777964

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