{"product_id":"racial-baggage-mexican-immigrants-and-race-across-the-border-9781503628526","title":"Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and \"illegal.\" This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the \"pigmentocracy\" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. \u003ci\u003eRacial Baggage\u003c\/i\u003e examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism within the United States and Mexico. Within their communities and networks that span an international border, Zamora argues, immigrants come to define \"race\" in a way distinct from both the color-conscious hierarchy of Mexican society and the Black-White binary prevalent within the United States. In the process, their stories demonstrate how race is not static, but rather an evolving social phenomenon forever altered by immigration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"During the Mexican Revolution, nationalizing elites forged ideas about the Mexican character, which included the mistaken notions that racism or Black people did not exist in their country. Mexican immigration has since become the largest, longest, and arguably the most marginalized in U.S. history. Through rich interviews, Sylvia Zamora uncovers how immigration and changes in both societies transform immigrant ideas about race and racism.\"—Edward Telles, author of \u003ci\u003ePigmentocracies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRacial Baggage\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how racial ideologies travel across the U.S.-Mexico border. This excellent and highly original book challenges many assumptions about how migrants develop racial awareness and offers a compelling transnational framework that represents a critical intervention in the field.\"—Julie A. Dowling, author of \u003ci\u003eMexican Americans and the Question of Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zamora has produced an important new contribution to the fields of sociology, history, immigration studies, ethnic\/minority studies, and political science. Those interested in better understanding the historical and ideological forces shaping immigration and race will want to read\u003ci\u003eRacial Baggage\u003c\/i\u003e. Highly recommended.\"—M. G. Urbina, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on a rich set of interview data with 75 non-migrants, return migrants, and immigrants in the United States, Zamora forcefully advances race relations, identity formation and meaning making, and transnational migration social science literature while also shedding new light on how the US–Mexico border operates as a race-making site.\"—Stephanie L. Canizales, \u003ci\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ideas about race and the attitudes and practices they elicit vary greatly between the United States and Mexico. But what happens with the large-scale migration and fluid mobility of people between both countries? With \u003ci\u003eRacial Baggage\u003c\/i\u003e, Sylvia Zamora makes a valuable contribution to understand the dynamic ideas and practices regarding race across the border. It is not only that migrants discover themselves as racialized in the eyes of those already living in the United States of America, but also that their experiences North of the border inform anew their relations back in Mexico.\"—Raúl Acosta, \u003ci\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Immigration and Racial Transformation in America\u003cbr\u003e  1. Race in Mexico: Mestizo Privilege\u003cbr\u003e  2. Racial Border Crossings\u003cbr\u003e  3. First Encounters with Race in El Norte\u003cbr\u003e  4. Settling In: Illegality and the U.S. Color Line\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: From Mestizo to Minority\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409412006231,"sku":"9781503628526","price":60.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781503628526.jpg?v=1730506712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racial-baggage-mexican-immigrants-and-race-across-the-border-9781503628526","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}