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Who belongs in America? : presidents, rhetoric, and immigration /

"As the nation's ceremonial as well as political leader, presidents through their rhetoric help to create the frame for the American public's understanding of immigration. In an overarching essay and ten case studies, Who Belongs in America? explores select moments in U.S. immigration...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beasley, Vanessa B., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Presidential rhetoric and immigration : balancing tensions between hope and fear / Vanessa B. Beasley
  • President of all the people / Michael Novak
  • The aliens are coming : the federalist attack on the First Amendment / Craig R. Smith
  • Presidents and religious diversity in the nineteenth century / Charles J. Stewart
  • Chinese exclusion : causes and consequences, 1882-1943 / Roger Daniels
  • Hooking the hyphen : Woodrow Wilson's war rhetoric and the Italian American community / Mary Anne Trasciatti
  • Immigration and the Red Scare / Robert H. Ferrell
  • Can the alien speak? : the McCarran-Walter Act and the First Amendment / James A. Aune
  • Questions of race, caste, and citizenship : Héctor P. García, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Polemics of the Bracero Immigrant Labor Program / Michelle Hall Kells
  • Rhetorical ambivalence : Bush and Clinton address the crisis of Haitian refugees / Denise M. Bostdorff
  • The class politics of cultural pluralism : presidential campaigns and the Latino vote / Anne T. Demo
  • A new hope or a recurring fear? / Vanessa B. Beasley.