"Precarious Privilege demonstrates how social class permeates all aspects of the racialization of illegality in Atlanta today, from the stigmatized image of the "typical Latino" as a working-class undocumented Mexican to the political and media elites that construct this image to the heritage belief systems, identities, and markers of prestige that middle-class Latino immigrants deploy to resist such stigmatization. As the intensifying state-sponsored racialization of illegality throughout the United States threatens the ...
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"Precarious Privilege demonstrates how social class permeates all aspects of the racialization of illegality in Atlanta today, from the stigmatized image of the "typical Latino" as a working-class undocumented Mexican to the political and media elites that construct this image to the heritage belief systems, identities, and markers of prestige that middle-class Latino immigrants deploy to resist such stigmatization. As the intensifying state-sponsored racialization of illegality throughout the United States threatens the status of Latino professionals, many marshal transnational middle-class status to combat it. To understand how social class privilege shapes both the experience of racialization of illegality and middle-class Latino immigrants' reactions and responses, Irene Browne addresses two guiding questions: First, how do first-generation middle-class Mexican and Dominican immigrants experience the racialization of illegality in Atlanta? Second, how does social class factor into this experience of racialization, and into the strategies that Mexican and Dominican immigrants deploy to negotiate and resist it? The book will aid policymakers and scholars in efforts to address anti-immigrant racism and benefit professionals such as teachers, healthcare workers, and counselors by highlighting the diversity within the Latino immigrant population and identifying the difficulties that this population faces. It will also help activists by explaining how middle-class Latino immigrants situate themselves within the U.S. landscape of race and inequality and the general public by offering a more complex picture of Latino immigrants"--
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