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 and non-im...
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.