In this article, we investigate the role that pro-immigrant organizations play in immigrant racialization. Drawing on a critical case study from the longest standing immigrant rights organization in North Carolina, we demonstrate how immigrant rights organizations can racialize new Latinx arrivals even as they advocate for them. We interrogate the organization’s multi-year, state-wide campaign to counteract mounting public characterizations of Latinx immigrants as drunk drivers. Analyzing a critical juncture in this campaign, we demonstrate how El Pueblo, in their effort to contest the mainstream racialization of Latinxs, unintentionally doubled down on that same racialization, buying into respectability politics and reinforcing derogatory stereotypes of Latinxs. We outline three central maneuvers that grounded this particular respectability politics campaign and demonstrate the utility of respectability politics as a framework for understanding organizational racialization processes. These findings suggest the need to shift focus toward community organizations as key sites of immigrant racialization and highlight the need for inquiry into the racialized assumptions of pro-immigrant forces.

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追求尊重：亲移民组织和加强移民种族化

在本文中，我们调查了亲移民组织在移民种族化中所起的作用。借鉴北卡罗来纳州历史最悠久的移民权利组织的关键案例研究，我们展示了移民权利组织如何在支持新移民的同时，对新移民进行种族歧视。我们审问该组织在全州范围内开展的多年活动，以抵制越来越多的公众将拉丁裔移民描述为酒后驾车的行为。通过分析这场运动中的一个关键时刻，我们展示了 El Pueblo 如何在努力对抗拉丁裔的主流种族化时，无意中在同一种族化上加倍努力，支持体面的政治并强化了对拉丁裔的贬损刻板印象。我们概述了为这一特殊的体面政治运动奠定基础的三个核心策略，并展示了体面政治作为理解组织种族化过程的框架的效用。这些调查结果表明，需要将重点转向社区组织，将其作为移民种族化的关键场所，并强调需要对亲移民力量的种族化假设进行调查。