With this volume The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge. 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. 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 fixedâracially or otherwiseâwhen so many people have been moving. This book is ideal as required reading in courses as well as a vital new resource for researchers throughout the social sciences. . Language: English