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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: discourses on immigration and the nation; value: Developing a visual discourse on immigration; value: Toward a framework for reading magazine covers; value: A lexicon of images, icons, and metaphors for a discourse on immigration and the nation; value: Immigration orthodoxies and heresies, 1965-85; value: Discourses on immigration and the nation, 1986-93; value: Immigrants outside the imagined community of the nation, 1994-99; value: Manufacturing consensus on an anti-Mexican immigration discourse; value: Alternative readings from America's future.