The Rhetorics of US Immigration : : Identity, Community, Otherness /

The Rhetorics of US Immigration : : Identity, Community, Otherness / / ed. by E. Johanna Hartelius.

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In the current geopolitical climate-in which unaccompanied children cross the border in record numbers, and debates on the topic swing violently from pole to pole-the subject of immigration demands innovative inquiry. In The Rhetorics of US Immigration, some of the most prominent and prolific schola...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Anguiano, Claudia A.,
Check, Terence,
Childers, Jay P.,
Chávez, Karma R.,
Cisneros, J. David,
Corrigan, Lisa M.,
DeChaine, D. Robert,
Gavrilos, Dina,
Hartelius, E. Johanna,
Ironside, Emily,
Jasken, Christine,
Lazcano-Pry, Yazmin,
Lechuga, Michael,
Teresa Demo, Anne,
Von Burg, Alessandra B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hartelius, E. Johanna,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 activism and public campaigns
  • 1 Facing Ghosts, God, and Nature: Affect, Naturalization, and the "No Más Cruces" Border Campaign
  • 2 Faithful Sovereignty: Denationalizing Immigration Policy in the 2003 Pastoral Letter on Migration
  • 3 Protecting LGBT Migrants: Th e Rhetoric of Identity and the Expansion of the Prison- Industrial Complex
  • Part 2 identity struggles and DREAMers
  • 4 Dropping the "I- Word": A Critical Examination of Contemporary Immigration Labels
  • 5 "American" Children's Success and Global Competitiveness: Th e Racial Paradox of Bilingualism as Cultural Capital
  • 6 Documenting Dreams: A Rhetorical Performance of Inclusive Citizenship and Collaborative Expertise
  • Part 3 (hi)stories of exclusion
  • 7 Constituting Enemies Through Fear: The Rhetoric of Exclusionary Nationalism in the Control of "Un- American" Immigrant Populations
  • 8 Defining the Right Sort of Immigrant: Theodore Roosevelt and American Character
  • 9 Immigration as Histories of Mob- ility: Personal Storytelling in the Where Are You From? Project
  • Part 4 affect and media imagery
  • 10 Battling Identity Warfare on the Imagined US/México Border: Performing Migrant Alien in Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles
  • 11 Affect, Emotion, and Immigration Rhetoric, or What Happens When a Minuteman Lives with Unauthorized Immigrants?
  • Afterword: Tracking the "Shifting Borders" of Identity and Otherness; Productive Complications and Ethico- Political Commitments
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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