Pacific Historical Review How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. By Natalia Molina. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2014. xv þ 207 pp. $65 cloth, $27.95 paper, $27.95 digital) While the title of the book suggests a sweeping and definitive account of the social construction of race, the specific focus of this study is Mexican immigration from 1924 to 1965. Bookended by major immigration acts, the historical period is characterized by shifting immigration regimes that constructed, and reconstructed, Mexicans as a race. Examining extensive Immigration and Natural- ization Service (INS) archives at both the national and regional branch levels, Molina argues and convincingly demonstrates that ‘‘Immigration laws are perhaps the most powerful and effective means of constructing and reordering the social order in the United States’’ (p. 11). Molina insists on what she calls a relational approach to studying race and citizenship. A comparative approach to the study of different racial/ethnic groups, by contrast, often fails to recognize that racia- lization is a mutually constitutive process. Throughout the book, Molina illustrates how the racial category of Mexican is constructed, situated, and hierarchically positioned in relation to groups such as Indian, Asian American, and African American. Such an emphasis considerably broadens the scope of her study and is central to the core concept of racial scripts that she compellingly advances. Shaping cultural representations as well as institutional structures and prac- tices, racial scripts highlight the connections among racialized groups across time and space. Molina notes that ‘‘once attitudes, practices, customs, policies, and laws are directed at one group, they are more readily available and hence easily applied to other groups’’ (p. 7). While such scripts are usually imposed from ‘‘above’’ by dominant institutions and social actors, racialized groups themselves often advance their own scripts and counterscripts that enable seem- ingly unlikely alliances and expressions of solidarity among different groups. The book is divided into two parts with Part I examining efforts to exclude Mexicans from citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s, and Part II focusing on policies and practices in the 1940s and 1950s to render Mexicans subject to deportation. While much of the material in Part I, including attempts to nullify Mexican eligibility for citizen- ship through racial reclassification or the suspension of birthright citizenship, has been covered in other studies, Molina makes us think about this material in new and generative ways. Through the