Pres. Rhetoric, 16: Who Belongs In America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and ImmigrationVanessa B. Beasley Texas A&M University Press, 2006 - 294 páginas "How can the immigrant of yesterday be lionized as the very foundation of the nation's character, while the immigrant of today is often demonized as a threat to the nation's safety and stability?" ask volume editor Vanessa B. Beasley in her introduction to this timely book. As the nation's ceremonial as well as political leader, presidents through their rhetoric help to create the frame for the American public's understanding of immigration. In an overarching essay and ten case studies, Who Belongs in America? Explores select moments in U.S. immigration history, focusing on the presidential discourse that preceded, address, or otherwise corresponded to events. These chapters, which originated as presentations at the Texas A&M University Conference on Presidential Rhetoric, share a common interest in how, when and under what circumstances U.S. presidents or their administrations have negotiated the tension that lies at the heart of the immigration issue in the United States. The various authors look at the dual views of immigrants as either scapegoats for cultural fears, especially during trying times. U.S. presidents have had to navigate between these two motifs, and they have chosen different ways to do so. Indeed, as these studies show, their words have sometimes been at odds with their deeds and policies. Since 9/11, few issues have more public significance than how America views immigrants. The contributors to this volume provide context that will help inform the public debate, as well as the scholarship, for years to come. Vanessa B. Beasley, an associate professor of communication at the University of Georgia, is the author of You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric, also published by Texas A&M University Press. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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... find ways of talking about immigration that can embrace both its symbolism and its political realities. Ultimately, readers will draw their own conclusions about how politically prudent or even morally commendable the rhetoric of the ...
... find themselves thinking , sometimes , that they would rather leave the country . However , if he represents ideas they share , or an image of the nation that lifts their hearts and ennobles them , his very presence inspires in them ...
... find their lives symbolically affected by it , even if they pay as little attention as they can . Even a very bland and unexciting presidency may affect them by lending the same tone to all the years that president is in office . By ...
... find a language for speaking for all of us, even across a yawning philosophical divide, over the tumult and the shouts of warring factions. Every president of the future, man or woman, will need the prayers of all of us in order to meet ...
... find it will be to give a Frenchman a dinner or a bed, as soon as this bill passes.” The Boston Gazette joined the battle on July 9, 1798: “The Editor of the Aurora was [recently] arrested, on a warrant from Judge Peters of the Federal ...
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Presidents and Religious Diversity in the Nineteenth | 61 |
Causes and Consequences | 89 |
Woodrow Wilsons War Rhetoric | 107 |
Immigration and the Red Scare | 134 |
Can the Alien Speak? The McCarranWalter Act | 149 |
Héctor | 183 |
Bush and Clinton Address | 206 |
Presidential | 247 |
Afterword A New Hope or a Recurring Fear? Vanessa B Beasley | 272 |
Contributors | 279 |
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Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration Vanessa B. Beasley Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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