Collateral damage : the influence of political rhetoric on the incorporation of second-generation Americans / Sean Richey

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richey, Sean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Children of immigrants--Political aspects--United States.

Children of immigrants.

Internalization--Political aspects--United States.

Internalization.

Communication in politics--United States.

Communication in politics.

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

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 163 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

Collateral Damage provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation. These perceptions and feelings in turn greatly influence the children's desire to incorporate into American political society. He also shows that regardless of a speaker's intended outcome, what is said can still have a deleterious effect on incorporation desire, a communicative process that he terms "collateral damage." Richey uses new experimental and survey evidence, as well as the rhetoric of Donald Trump as a test case, to examine how anti-immigration communication influences the incorporation of the children of immigrants.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472903139