Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across by Sylvia Zamora PAPERBACK

Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border\nby Sylvia Zamora\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Sylvia Zamora\nTitle: Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Migration, immigration and emigration\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781503632240\nISBN-10: 1503632245\nRRP: \u00A321.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nUpon 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 Americ.