Nation and Its Peoples

Introduction

With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge.

Focus and Themes

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.

Importance of Migration

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.

Usage

This book is ideal as required reading in courses, as well as a vital new resource for researchers throughout the social sciences.