Julie A. Dowling is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She coedited Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader.

Dowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal)

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Question of RaceChapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican AmericansChapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of WhitenessChapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the BorderChapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily LifeChapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial IdentityAppendix: Notes on MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex

Julie A. Dowling is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She coedited Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader.

Dowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal)

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Question of RaceChapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican AmericansChapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of WhitenessChapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the BorderChapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily LifeChapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial IdentityAppendix: Notes on MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex

Julie A. Dowling is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She coedited Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader.

Dowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal)

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Question of RaceChapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican AmericansChapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of WhitenessChapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the BorderChapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily LifeChapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial IdentityAppendix: Notes on MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex