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1 online resource (xxi, 402 pages) |
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Why study the public discourse metaphors depicting Latinos? -- How metaphor shapes public opinion -- Proposition 187: misrepresenting immigrants and immigration -- Proposition 209: competing metaphors for racism and affirmative action -- Student as means, not end: contemporary America discourse on education -- American discourse on nation and language: the "English for the children" referendum -- Disease or intruder: metaphors constructing the place of Latinos in the United States -- Insurgent metaphors: contesting the conventional representations of Latinos |
| Summary |
Annotation ". . . 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 groundbreaking book, Otto Santa Ana argues that far from being mere figures of speech, such metaphors produce and sustain negative public perceptions of the Latino community and its place in American society, precluding the view that Latinos are vested with the same rights and privileges as other citizens. Applying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, burdens, parasites, diseases, animals, and weeds. He convincingly demonstrates that three anti-Latino referenda passed in California because of such imagery, particularly the infamous anti-immigrant measure, Proposition 187. Santa Ana illustrates how Proposition 209 organisers broadcast compelling new metaphors about racism to persuade an electorate that had previously supported affirmative action to ban it. He also shows how Proposition 227 supporters used antiquated metaphors for learning, school, and language to blame Latino children's speech - rather than gross structural inequity - for their schools' failure to educate them. Santa Ana concludes by calling for the creation of insurgent metaphors to contest oppressive U.S. public discourse about minority communities |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-391) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 11, 2020) |
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Hispanic Americans -- Public opinion
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Hispanic Americans and mass media.
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Discourse analysis -- United States -- Psychological aspects
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Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- United States
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Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government -- Public opinion
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Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion
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Public opinion -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
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Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects
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Ethnic relations -- Psychological aspects
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Hispanic Americans and mass media
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Hispanic Americans -- Public opinion
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Immigrants -- Public opinion
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Public opinion
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Race relations -- Psychological aspects
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Öffentliche Meinung
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Psychological aspects
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United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects
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United States
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USA
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Lateinamerikaner.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001052227 |
| ISBN |
0292796358 |
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9780292796355 |
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0292777663 |
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9780292777668 |
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