Though politicians and members of their constituencies argue immigration
policy from seemingly infinite perspectives and sides, one point stands
clear and definite: decisions as to who can enter the United States and
who can eventually gain citizenship status generally depends of issues
of “race,” for U.S. immigration systems reflect and serve as the
country’s official “racial” policies.
This presentation investigates how notion of “race” is socially
constructed. It arose concurrently with the advent of European
exploration as a justification and rationale for conquest and domination
of the globe beginning in the 15th century of the Common Era. Therefore,
“race” is an historical, “scientific,” and biological myth. It is an
idea. Geneticists tell us that there is often more variability within a
given so-called “race” than between “races,” and that there are no
essential genetic markers linked specifically to “race.”
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Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld is author of God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity: Commentaries on the Culture of Firearms in the United States(Peter Lang Publishers), The What, the So What, and the Now What of Social Justice Education (Peter Lang Publishers), Warren’s Words: Smart Commentary on Social Justice (Purple Press); editor of Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (Beacon Press), and co-editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge) and Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States (Sense), and co-author of Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life (Beacon Press).
