Deportable and Disposable : Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant /
In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the "illegal alien" took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about Mexican immigrants and exposes how...
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| Μορφή: | Licensed eBooks |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Σειρά: | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jj.22247042 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Making "Mexican" in Deportability and "Illegality"
- 2 The Threat of Race
- 3 The Promise of Race and the Whiteness of Nation
- 4 Seeing Race, Recognizing Mexican "Illegality"
- Conclusion: Border Ambivalence and the Rhetorical Complexities of "Illegality"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index