The rhetorics of US immigration : identity, community, otherness / edited by E. Johanna Hartelius.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartelius, E. Johanna, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Rhetoric--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 302 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"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-immigrant communities"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271067186

0271067187

OCLC:

906936264