The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants (New Racial Studies) - Softcover

John Park

John S.W. Park is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies and an affiliated faculty member in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He completed his doctorate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. From 2011 to the present, he has served as the Associate Director for the UC Center for New Racial Studies. Park writes and teaches on topics in race theory, immigration law and policy, and Anglo-American legal and political theory. His books include Elusive Citizenship: Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2004), Probationary Americans: Contemporary Immigration Policies and the Shaping of Asian American Communities (Routledge, 2005, with Edward J.W. Park), and Illegal Migrations and the Huckleberry Finn Problem (Temple University Press, 2013).

Shannon Gleeson

Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the workplace experiences of immigrants, the role of documentation status in stratification, andimmigrant civic engagement. Gleeson’s work has been published in a range of journals including Latino Studies, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, International Migration, and The American Journal of Sociology. Her book, Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, was published in 2012 by Cornell University Press.

"This superb volume heralds the welcome arrival of Routledge's series on "new racial studies." In John Park and Shannon Gleeson's expert curatorial hands, The Nation and its People teems with bracing insights from some of the University of California's best and brightest minds working at the intersection of race and immigration. The collection, dans ensemble, presses the indispensable point that who we are, as a body politic, is inextricably linked to immanent processes of racial discrimination and nativist exclusion."

-Taeku Lee, Political Science and Law, University of California Berkeley

"At a time when public discourse suggests race no longer matters, this book demonstrates otherwise. Park and Gleeson have organized a collection of thought-provoking essays that reveal the complex, shifting processes and patterns of race and racism in the US today. Centering experiences of multiple groups, the volume moves beyond black and white conceptions of race to underscore that racial inequalities continue to be deeply rooted in social structures. This book should be required reading for scholars of race, immigration, and inequality."

-Leisy J. Abrego, Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Nation and Its Peoples is highly original and thought-provoking. The authors provide sophisticated analyses and compelling evidence to shed new light on the continuing significance of race and dispel the myths of a post-racial America."

-Min Zhou, Ph.D., Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and author of Contemporary Chinese America

"While pundits may argue that we now "live in a post-racial society," an approach known as "new racial studies" provides powerful tools to unmask pernicious ideologies. Here, Park and Gleeson demonstrate that policy debates over immigration, naturalization, confinement, and deportation are inseparably intertwined with racialization projects. The quest for social justice will not prevail if this basic fact is ignored."

-Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Aratani Endowed Chair, Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles