Border rhetorics : citizenship and identity on the US-Mexico frontier /

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Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: DeChaine, D. Robert (Daniel Robert), 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
Colección:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Temas:
Border security > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Citizenship > Political aspects > United States.
Noncitizens > United States.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Sécurité frontalière > États-Unis.
Discours politique > États-Unis.
Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis.
Immigration clandestine > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Noncitizens
Illegal immigration
Border security
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Émigration et immigration > Aspect politique.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: For Rhetorical Border Studies
  • D. Robert DeChaine; I. Conceptual Orientations; 1. Borders That Travel: Matters of the Figural Border
  • Kent A. Ono; 2. Bordering as Social Practice: Intersectional Identifications and Coalitional Possibilities
  • Julia R. Johnson; 3. Border Interventions: The Need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization
  • Karma R. Chávez; II. Historical Consequences; 4. A Dispensational Rhetoric in "The Mexican Question in the Southwest"
  • Michelle A. Holling
  • 5. Mobilizing for National Inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans' Arguments for Desegregation
  • Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann VillarrealIII. Legal Acts; 6. The Attempted Legitimation of the Vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-USBorder, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
  • Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr.; 7. Shot in the Back: Articulating the Ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial
  • Zach Justus; IV . Performative Affects
  • 8. Looking "Illegal": Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona's Senate Bill
  • Josue David Cisneros9. Love, Loss, and Immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter
  • Bernadette Marie Calafell; 10. Borders without Bodies: Affect, Paroximity, and Utopian Imaginaries through ""Lines in the Sand""
  • Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Perez; V. Media Circuits; 11. Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic
  • Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling
  • 12. Decriminalizing Illegal Immigration: Immigrants' Rights through the Documentary Lens
  • Anne Teresa Demo13. The Ragpicker-Citizen
  • Toby Miller; Afterword: Border Optics
  • John Louis Lucaites; Suggested Readings; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

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