The rhetorics of US immigration identity, community, otherness
"Examines U.S. immigration as a rhetorical process inventing persons and communities in reference to space and place. Engages immigration in media and popular culture; the construction of immigrant experiences in public discourse; and the effects of fear, violence, and exclusion on immigrant an...
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University Park, PA
The Pennsylvania State University Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Examines U.S. immigration as a rhetorical process inventing persons and communities in reference to space and place. Engages immigration in media and popular culture; the construction of immigrant experiences in public discourse; and the effects of fear, violence, and exclusion on immigrant and non-immigrant communities"--Provided by publisher Facing ghosts, God, and nature : affect, naturalization, and the "No más cruces" border campaign / Terence Check and Christine Jasken -- Faithful sovereignty : denationalizing immigration policy in the 2003 pastoral letter on migration / Anne Teresa Demo -- Protecting LGBT migrants : the rhetoric of identity and the expansion of the prison-industrial complex / Karma R. Chávez -- Dropping the "I-word" : a critical examination of contemporary immigration labels / Claudia Anguiano -- "American" children's success and global competitiveness : the racial paradox of bilingualism as cultural capital / Dina Gavrilos -- Documenting dreams : a rhetorical performance of inclusive citizenship and collaborative expertise / Yazmin Lazcano-Pry -- Constituting enemies through fear : the rhetoric of exclusionary nationalism in the control of "un-American" immigrant populations / Emily Ironside and Lisa M. Corrigan -- Defining the right sort of immigrant : Theodore Roosevelt and American character / Jay P. Childers -- Immigration as histories of mob-ility : personal storytelling in the Where Are You From? Project / Alessandra B. Von Burg -- Battling identity warfare on the imagined US/México border : performing migrant alien in Independence day and Battle: Los Angeles / Michael Lechuga -- Affect, emotion, and immigration rhetoric, or what happens when a minuteman lives with unauthorized immigrants? / J. David Cisneros -- Afterword : tracking the "shifting borders" of identity and otherness : productive complications and ethico-political committments / D. Robert DeChaine |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben Enthält Index Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 302 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0271067187 0-271-06718-7 9780271067186 978-0-271-06718-6 |