Migrants and Race in the US: Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside

By Philip Kretsedemas

Book Overview

This book uses the concept of territorial racism to describe the discriminatory acts and exclusions that have been informed by native/alien distinctions. It argues that while the concept intersects with several different histories of racial and racist discourse, it is a distinct ideological formation in its own right. It is broader in scope than these other types of racism, and articulates race and territory in a way that is qualitatively different from the racial-territorial commonsense of the colonial era. Reflecting in policy trends, racial discourse, and macro-structural transformations, this book operates across all of these levels-looking at global/local and micro/macro dynamics-to present a new theory of immigrant racialization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041565839X
• ISBN13: 9780415658393
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"