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This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies and identifications and how they choose to present them to others.

Trade Review
Dowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal *

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. The Question of Race
  • Chapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican Americans
  • Chapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of Whiteness
  • Chapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the Border
  • Chapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily Life
  • Chapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial Identity
  • Appendix: Notes on Methodology
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2015
      ISBN13: 9781477307540, 978-1477307540
      ISBN10: 1477307540
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies and identifications and how they choose to present them to others.

      Trade Review
      Dowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal *

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Chapter 1. The Question of Race
      • Chapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican Americans
      • Chapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of Whiteness
      • Chapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the Border
      • Chapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily Life
      • Chapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial Identity
      • Appendix: Notes on Methodology
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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