The Latino threat
Subtitle: constructing immigrants, citizens and the nation
By: Leo R. Chavez.
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Brand: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780804759335; 9780804759342
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Press coverage -- United States; Mexican Americans -- Press coverage -- United States; Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States; Citizenship -- United States; Emigration and immigration law -- United States; Prejudices in the press -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Constructing and challenging myths. The Latino threat narrative; title: Cultural contradictions of citizenship and belonging; title: Latina sexuality, reproduction, and fertility as threats to the nation; title: Latina fertility and reproduction reconsidered; title: pt. 2. Media spectacles and the production of neoliberal citizen-subjects. Organ transplants and the privileges of citizenship; title: The Minuteman Project's spectacle of surveillance on the Arizona-Mexico border; title: The immigrant marches of 2006 and the struggle for inclusion.