ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|81 pages
History
chapter 1|16 pages
“The Filipinos Do Not Need Any Encouragement From Americans Now Living”
chapter 2|20 pages
Race, Community, and Activism in Greater Los Angeles
chapter 3|21 pages
Race, Immigration Status, and Illegality
chapter 4|22 pages
“Allow One Photo Per Year”
part II|84 pages
Race, Agency, Identity
chapter 6|21 pages
“Ascriptive” Citizenship and Being American
part III|102 pages
Institutions and Structures