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How race is made in America :

Molina, Natalia.

How race is made in America : immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts / Natalia Molina. - 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations. - American crossroads .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Immigration Regimes I : Mapping Race and Citizenship -- 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 -- Part II. Immigration Regimes II : Making Mexicans Deportable -- 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.

9780520957190 (e-book)


Citizenship--History--United States--20th century.
Deportation--History--United States--20th century.
Immigrants--History--United States--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Race discrimination--History--United States--20th century.


United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.
United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
United States--Race relations--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

E184.M5 / M587 2014eb

305.868/72073

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