Brown Tide Rising : : Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse /

Brown Tide Rising : : Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse / / Otto Santa Ana.

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".awash under a brown tide.the relentless flow of immigrants.like waves on a beach, these human flows are remaking the face of America." Since 1993, metaphorical language such as this has permeated mainstream media reporting on the United States' growing Latino population. In this gro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Santa Ana, Otto,
MitwirkendeR:
Feagin, Joe R.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE Why Study the Public Discourse Metaphors Depicting Latinos?
  • PART I Theory and Method
  • CHAPTER TWO How Metaphor Shapes Public Opinion
  • PART II Analyses
  • CHAPTER THREE Proposition 187: Misrepresenting Immigrants and Immigration
  • CHAPTER FOUR Proposition 209: Competing Metaphors for racism and affirmative action
  • CHAPTER FIVE Student as Means, Not End: Contemporary American Discourse on Education
  • CHAPTER SIX American Discourse on nation and language: The ‘‘English for the Children’’ Referendum
  • PART III Conclusions
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Disese or intruder: Metaphors Constructing the Place of Latinos in the United States
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Insurgent Metaphors: Contesting the Conventional Representations of Latinos
  • Appendix: Tallies of Political Metaphors
  • Notes
  • References
  • Permissions Acknowledgments
  • Index

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