ISBN:
9780804786188
,
0804786186
,
0804783519
,
9780804783514
,
0804783527
,
9780804783521
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 297 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chavez, Leo R., 1951 - The Latino threat
DDC:
305.868073
Keywords:
Hispanic Americans Press coverage
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United States
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Mexican Americans Press coverage
;
United States
;
Immigrants Civil rights
;
United States
;
Citizenship United States
;
Emigration and immigration law United States
;
Prejudices in the press United States
;
Hispanic Americans Press coverage
;
Mexican Americans Press coverage
;
Immigrants Civil rights
;
Citizenship
;
Emigration and immigration law
;
Prejudices in the press
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Citizenship
;
Emigration and immigration
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Emigration and immigration law
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Hispanic Americans ; Press coverage
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Immigrants ; Civil rights
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Prejudices in the press
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Hispanos
;
Bürgerrecht
;
Medienpublizistik
;
Rassismus
Abstract:
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the many fictions about the "Latino threat." With new discussion about anchor babies, the DREAM Act, and recent anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona and other states, this expanded second edition critically investigates the stories about recent immigrants to show how prejudices are used to malign an entire population--and to define what it means to be American
Abstract:
Part 1. Constructing and challenging myths. The Latino threat narrative -- Cultural contradictions of citizenship and belonging -- Latina sexuality, reproduction, and fertility as threats to the nation -- Latina fertility and reproduction reconsidered -- Part 2. Media spectacles and the production of neoliberal citizen-subjects. Organ transplants and the privileges of citizenship -- The Minuteman Project's spectacle of surveillance on the Arizona-Mexico border -- The immigrant marches of 2006 and the struggle for inclusion -- DREAMers and anchor babies.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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