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Dr. Jiménez\, Professor of Sociology at S tanford University\, will present a lecture titled "Building the Nation of Immigrants: Textbooks\, Immigration\, and the National Narrative\, 1930-198 5."
How did the idea of the nation of immigrants com e to be? Sofia Avila (Princeton Sociology) and I use a sample of U.S. histo ry high school textbooks from 1930 to 1985 to document the role that immigr ation and select immigrant groups play in building the national narrative.< /p>
Using hand coding and computer-assisted text analysis\, we show how t he selection\, organization\, and interpretation of immigrant group experie nces shifts over time\, such that protagonists and antagonists in the natio nal narrative swap places over the course of the 20th century.
By the mid-1980s\, descendants of immigrants are part of a “minority” American ex perience\, and the national “we” that once excluded immigrants become the f oil for the true American character.
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Tomás Jiménez is a Pr ofessor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Et hnicity and the founding co-director of Stanfor d's Institute on Race. He is also the director of the Qualitative Initi ative in the Immigration Policy Lab. His research and writing focus on immigration\, policy\, assimilation\, social mobility\, an d ethnic and racial identity.
His latest book\, States of Belonging: Immigration Policies\, Attitude s\, and Inclusion (Russell Sage Foundation Press) uses survey data\ , with an embedded experiment\, and in-depth interviews to understand how s tate-level immigration policies shape belonging among Latino immigrants\, U S-born Latinos\, and US-born whites in Arizona and New Mexico. The American Sociological Association’s Population Section selected the book for its Ot is Dudley Duncan Distinguished Book Award.
Dr. Jiménez has also publi shed his research in Science\, American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie nces\, Social Problems\, International Migration Review\, Ethnic and Racial Studies\, Social Science Quarterly\, DuBois Review\, Social Currents\, Qualitative Soc iology\, and the Annual Review of Sociology.
Find out more about D r. Jiménez here.
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