5. Deportations in the Urban Landscape

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Immigration Regimes I: Mapping Race and Citizenship
7. 1. Placing Mexican Immigration within the Larger Landscape of Race Relations in the United States 19
8. 2. “What Is a White Man?”: Th e Quest to Make Mexicans Ineligible for U.S. Citizenship 43
9. 3. Birthright Citizenship beyond Black and White 68
10. Part Two. Immigration Regimes II: Making Mexicans Deportable
11. 4. Mexicans Suspended in a State of Deportability: Medical Racialization and Immigration Policy in the 1940s 91
12. 5. Deportations in the Urban Landscape 112
13. Epilogue: Making Race in the Twenty- first Century 139
14. Notes 153
15. Bibliography 183
16. Index 199