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Author:

Molina, Natalia, author.

Title:

How race is made in America : immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts / Natalia Molina.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- 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.

ISBN:

0520280083 (paper acid-free paper)
9780520280083 (paper acid-free paper)
0520280075 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780520280076 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)845085490

LCCN:

2013018468

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)