Covering immigration : popular images and the politics of the nation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
Subjects:	United States > Emigration and immigration > Public opinion. United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy. Immigrants > United States > Public opinion. Public opinion > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: discourses on immigration and the nation
Developing a visual discourse on immigration
Toward a framework for reading magazine covers
A lexicon of images, icons, and metaphors for a discourse on immigration and the nation
Immigration orthodoxies and heresies, 1965-85
Discourses on immigration and the nation, 1986-93
Immigrants outside the imagined community of the nation, 1994-99
Manufacturing consensus on an anti-Mexican immigration discourse
Alternative readings from America's future.