Covering Immigration - Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation

Informationen zum Autor Leo R. Chavez is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California! Irvine! and author of Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (second edition! 1998). Klappentext A look at how immigration is portrayed in the major media! by examining mainstream magazine covers on the topic between the major immigration reforms in 1965 and today. Demonstrates how the media both shapes and reflects the volatile politics of immigration. Zusammenfassung Gives a cultural history of the immigration issue in the United States since 1965. This work traces the connections between the social, legal, and economic conditions surrounding immigration and the diverse images through which it is portrayed.

Product details

• Authors: Leo R. Chavez, Chavez Leo R.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2001
• EAN: 9780520224360
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22436-0
• No. of pages: 357
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; USA, Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General