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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	JV6455 .C44 2001		AVAILABLE

Author	Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph)
Title	Covering immigration : popular images and the politics of the nation / Leo R. Chavez.
OCLC	45618335
ISBN	0520224353
Publisher	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
	�2001
Description	xv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Public opinion -- United States.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
Contents	Introduction: discourses on immigration and the nation -- Developing a visual discourse on immigration -- Toward a framework for reading magazine covers -- A lexicon of images, icons, and metaphors for a discourse on immigration and the nation -- Immigration orthodoxies and heresies, 1965-85 -- Discourses on immigration and the nation, 1986-93 -- Immigrants outside the imagined community of the nation, 1994-99 -- Manufacturing consensus on an anti-Mexican immigration discourse -- Alternative readings from America's future.

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