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The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration - Gender, Race, and Media (Hardcover)
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The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration - Gender, Race, and Media (Hardcover)
Series: Nation of Nations
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How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's
fused to shape modern views on democracy In the 1980s, amid
increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia,
the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden,
reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and
women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in
the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular
news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that
certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were
feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The
Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s
immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial
ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy.
Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies
methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents,
congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls,
Who's the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even
while "multicultural" immigrants were embraced, they were at the
same time disciplined through gendered discourses of
respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture,
this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing
discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of
both neoliberalism and immigration.
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