Vol. 11 No. 31 (2004): Raza, fobias e intolerancias
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Neither black nor white: Mexicans. The role of U.S. Border Patrol in the definition of a new racial category. 1924-1940.

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  • Kelly Lytle Hernández
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Universidad de California, Los Ángeles

Published 2004-08-01

Keywords

  • migrants,
  • border,
  • USA,
  • Mexico,
  • racism

How to Cite

Neither black nor white: Mexicans. The role of U.S. Border Patrol in the definition of a new racial category. 1924-1940. (2004). Cuicuilco Revista De Ciencias Antropológicas, 11(31), 81-100. https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/cuicuilco/article/view/459

Abstract

The United States Congress established the U.S. Border Patrol on May 28, 1924 and mandated the new police force to enforce the nation's immigration restrictions by preventing unsanctioned border crossings. By dedicating the violence of immigration law enforcement to the policing of Mexicanos instead of to the patrolling of the borderline, Border Patrol officers defined a uniquely Mexicano axis of racial marginalization within the black/white divides of social order in the United States.

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