Full Description
With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge. Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural discrimination, and the ways in which "race" has formally disappeared in the law and yet remains one of the most powerful, underlying, unacknowledged, and often unspoken aspects of debates about citizenship, about membership and national belonging, within immigration politics and policy. This collection of original essays also emphasizes the need for race scholars to be more attentive to the processes and consequences of migration across multiple boundaries, as surely there is no place that can stay fixed—racially or otherwise—when so many people have been moving. This book is ideal as required reading in courses, as well as a vital new resource for researchers throughout the social sciences.
Contents
Preface, by Howard Winant / Race and Immigration: An Introduction, by John Park and Shannon Gleeson / I. History / 1. Victor Bascara, "'The Filipinos Do Not Need Any Encouragement from Americans Now Living': On Dilemmas of Teaching and Being Taught Ethics Under Unethical Conditions." / 2. Jean-Paul de Guzman, "Race, Community, and Activism in Greater Los Angeles: Japanese Americans, African Americans, and the Contested Spaces of Southern California." / 3. John Park, "Getting Around the Law: Asians, Whites, and Land Ownership." / 4. Dylan Rodríguez, "'Allow One Photo': Prison Strikes as Racial Archives." / II. Race, Agency, Identity / 5. Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Claire Jean Kim, "Beyond Whiteness: Asian Americans and Latinos in the U.S. Educational Discourse." / 6. Irene Bloemraad, "'Ascriptive' Citizenship and Being American: Race, Birthplace, and Immigrants' Membership in the United States." / 7. Jennifer Jones, "Making Minorities: Mexican Racialization in the New South." / 8. Steve McKay, "Racializing the High Seas: Filipino Migrants and Global Shipping." / III. Institutions and Structures / 9. Shannon Gleeson, "Navigating Occupational Health Rights: The Function of Illegality, Language, and Class Inequality in Workers' Compensation." / 10. Tanya Golash-Boza, "Tattoos, Stigma, and National Identity Among Guatemalan Deportees." / 11. Anna Joo Kim, "Informality at Work: Immigrant Employment and Flexible Jobs in Los Angeles." / 12. Greg Prieto, "An Ethnographic Analysis of Mexican Immigrant Agency." / 13. Tom Wong, "Nation of Immigrants, or Deportation Nation? Analyzing Deportation and Returns in the United States, 1892 to 2010."
