Borderlands Media - Cinema and Literature As Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants

Informationen zum Autor David E. Toohey is visiting assistant professor at Aichi University in Nagoya, Japan. Klappentext Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants, by David E. Toohey, explores the ways in which immigrants, diaspora communities, and their allies use alternative media to reject oppression. This in-depth analysis of the immigrant experience makes use of a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media from 1958 onward, combined with supporting social science and policy documents. Borderlands Media is an essential text for scholars and students engaged in questions of media's effect on the oppression of immigrants and diaspora communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Theoretical and Literature ReviewChapter 2. Methodology Chapter 3. When the Border Follows ImmigrantsChapter 4. Neo-Baroque Law and Violent Border SpacesChapter 5. Citizenship and "Legitimate" Speakers in I.R.Chapter 6. Jim Crow and Neo-RacismChapter 7. Re-linking Submerged Time and SpaceChapter 8. La Facultdad and Meta-RacismChapter 9. ConclusionEpilogue: Cinematic Border Interference

Product details

• Authors: David Toohey
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780739149515
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4951-5
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Central / national / federal government policies, Civics and citizenship, Central government policies