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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Collection: | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;
24 |
| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jj.22247042 |
Table des matières:
- 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