The cultural politics of U.S. immigration : gender, race, and media / Leah Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Leah, author.

Series:

Nation of nations (NYU Press)

Nation of nations : immigrant history as American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Government policy.

Immigrants in mass media.

Mass media and race relations--United States.

Mass media and race relations.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Cultural politics of United States immigration

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcome exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of neoliberalism. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media such as The Golden Girls, Who's the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even while "multicultural" immigrants were embraced, they were at the same time disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability. Examining the relationship between policy and culture, this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of both neoliberalism and immigration. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: media, gender, and immigration

Immigration as emergency

The borderlines of family reunification

Exiled mothers and mothers of exiles

Inaugurating neoliberal crimmigration

Over-looking difference: amnesty and the rise of latina/o pop culture

Conclusion: crossing neoliberalism?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-272) and index.

ISBN:

9781479828777

1479828777

9781479823864

1479823864

OCLC:

945573119