| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed April 7, 2015) |
| Subject |
Hispanic Americans -- Press coverage -- United States
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Mexican Americans -- Press coverage -- United States
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Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States
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Citizenship -- United States
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
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Prejudices in the press -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Citizenship
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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
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804786188 |
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0804786186 |
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