The Latino threat : constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation

The Latino threat : constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation / Leo R. Chavez.

News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Citizenship
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration law
Hispanic Americans > Press coverage
Immigrants > Civil rights
Prejudices in the press
United States > Emigration and immigration.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Constructing and challenging myths. The Latino threat narrative
  • Cultural contradictions of citizenship and belonging
  • Latina sexuality, reproduction, and fertility as threats to the nation
  • Latina fertility and reproduction reconsidered
  • Part 2. Media spectacles and the production of neoliberal citizen-subjects. Organ transplants and the privileges of citizenship
  • The Minuteman Project's spectacle of surveillance on the Arizona-Mexico border
  • The immigrant marches of 2006 and the struggle for inclusion
  • DREAMers and anchor babies.

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