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How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of California Press<\/a>
\nJanuary 2014
\n232 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780520280076
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780520280083
\nAdbobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520957190
\nePUB Format ISBN: 9780520957190<\/p>\n

Natalia Molina<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts; Humanities and Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies
\nUniversity of California, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n

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How Race Is Made in America<\/em> examines Mexican Americans\u2014from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished\u2014to 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.<\/p>\n

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 ways\u2014that 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<\/em> also shows that these racial scripts are easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racial groups.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n