Covering immigration
Subtitle: popular images and the politics of the nation
By: Leo R. Chavez.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: discourses on immigration and the nation; title: Developing a visual discourse on immigration; title: Toward a framework for reading magazine covers; title: A lexicon of images, icons, and metaphors for a discourse on immigration and the nation; title: Immigration orthodoxies and heresies, 1965-85; title: Discourses on immigration and the nation, 1986-93; title: Immigrants outside the imagined community of the nation, 1994-99; title: Manufacturing consensus on an anti-Mexican immigration discourse; title: Alternative readings from America's future.