The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States

by Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Book Overview

Explores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora.

Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith shows how this nationally and ethnically diverse group is associated with idealized accounts of the assimilation and upward mobility of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479806714
• ISBN13: 9781479806713
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"