Covering Immigration : Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation / Leo R. Chavez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--Public opinion.

Immigrants.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Public opinion.

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 342 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2001]

Summary:

On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a growling guard dog lunging at a man carrying a pack. The magazine's coverage of emerging anti-immigrant sentiment shows how highly charged the images and texts on popular magazine covers can be. This provocative book gives a cultural history of the immigration issue in the United States since 1965, using popular magazine covers as a fascinating entry into a discussion of our attitudes toward one of the most volatile debates in the nation. Leo Chavez gathers and analyzes over seventy cover images from politically diverse magazines, including Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, The New Republic, The Nation, and American Heritage. He traces the connections between the social, legal, and economic conditions surrounding immigration and the diverse images through which it is portrayed. Covering Immigration suggests that media images not only reflect the national mood but also play a powerful role in shaping national discourse. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, this original and perceptive book raises new questions about the media's influence over the public's increasing fear of immigration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Credits

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Discourses on Immigration and the Nation

2. Developing a Visual Discourse on Immigration

3. Toward a Framework for Reading Magazine Covers

4. A Lexicon of Images, Icons, and Metaphors for a Discourse on Immigration and the Nation

5. Immigration Orthodoxies and Heresies, 1965-85

6. Discourses on Immigration and the Nation, 1986-93

7. Immigrants outside the Imagined Community of the Nation, 1994-99

8. Manufacturing Consensus on an Anti-Mexican Immigration Discourse

9. Alternative Readings from America's Future

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520925250

0520925254

9780520214360

OCLC:

1198931034