The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation
ISBN: 9780804759342 | 0804759340
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/18/2008
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From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has witnessed a surge of involvement in immigration activism. InThe Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez critically investigates the media stories about and recent experiences of immigrants to show how prejudices and stereotypes have been used to malign an entire immigrant populationand to define what it means to be an American. Punditsand the media at largenurture and perpetu... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Constructing and Challenging Myths | |
| The Latino Threat Narrative | p. 21 |
| Cultural Contradictions of Citizenship and Belonging | p. 44 |
| Latina Sexuality, Reproduction, and Fertility as Threats to the Nation | p. 70 |
| Latina Fertility and Reproduction Reconsidered | p. 96 |
| Media Spectacles and the Production of Neoliberal Citizen-Sub... MORE | |
| Organ Transplants and the Privileges of Citizenship | p. 113 |
| The Minuteman Project's Spectacle of Surveillance on the Arizona-Mexico Border | p. 132 |
| The Immigrant Marches of 2006 and the Struggle for Inclusion | p. 152 |
| Epilogue | p. 177 |
| Notes | p. 189 |
| Bibliography | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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Leo R. Chavez is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (1998) and Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (2001).
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