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How Race is Made in America Author: Natalia Molina

ISBN: 9780520280083 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 232 Published: 17 December 2013 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.9 x 1.4 Description: How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americansfrom 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolishedto 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 United States about Mexican Americans, race, and ethnicity.

Molina demonstrates that despite the multiplicity of influences that help shape our concept of race, common themes prevail. Examining legal, political, social, and cultural sources related to immigration, she advances the theory that our understanding of race is socially constructed in relational waysthat is, in correspondence to other groups. Molina introduces and explains her central theory,racial scripts, which highlights the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another.How Race Is Made in America <...

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