Covering Immigration
Subtitle: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780520224360
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Immigration & emigration; Media studies; Social & cultural anthropology; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Immigrants; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; United States; Sociology; USA; Public opinion; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Emigration and immigration; Government policy
First sentence: A national culture is a discourse-a way of constructing meanings which influences and organizes both our actions and our conception of ourselves.