How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts Volume 38

by Natalia Molina

Book Overview

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 what Natalia Molina describes as an immigration regime, which defined the racial categories that continue to influence perceptions in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280083
• ISBN13: 9780520280083
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"