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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.
On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of
disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral
indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame
and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and
intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in
shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this
emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here
consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways
that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group
coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide,
immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls
attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social
boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged
by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and
embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism,
diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of
race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays
offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame
helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and
moral actors.
On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of
disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral
indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame
and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and
intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in
shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this
emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here
consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways
that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group
coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide,
immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls
attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social
boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged
by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and
embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism,
diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of
race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays
offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame
helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and
moral actors.
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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