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Author:
Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph), author.
Title:
The Latino threat : constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation / Leo R. Chavez.
Edition:
Second edition.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xi, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Subject:
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.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Hispanos.
Mexikaner.
Einwanderungspolitik.
Berichterstattung.
Massenmedien.
Vorurteil.
USA.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-286) and index.
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.
ISBN:
0804783527 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804783521 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804783519 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804783514 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)812614597
LCCN:
2012040902
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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