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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... Office of the Vice President for Research. In addition, the Program in Presidential Rhetoric was also supported by gifts of financial support from Linda and Herman Giesen of Dallas, Texas, and Clementine and Emil Ogden of College ...
... office, and those which invoke the larger and more abstract symbolic themes of the mythos of US. nationalism. These three levels can sometimes conflict with each other. With respect to immigration in particular, the second two sets of ...
... office during this time—Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge—there was a "dangerous miscalculation" in underestimating the relationship between immigration laws and foreign policy. In chapter 7, James A. Aune writes about ...
... argued before the Supreme Court: "Undoubtedly so far as the mere individual man is concerned there is a great difference between the president and a king; but so far as the office is concerned—so PRESIDENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE | 21.
... office is concerned—so far as the great executive office of this government is concerned—I deny that there is a particle less dignity belonging to the office of president than to the office of king of Great Britain or of any other ...
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Presidents and Religious Diversity in the Nineteenth | 61 |
Causes and Consequences | 89 |
Woodrow Wilson 5 War Rhetoric | 107 |
Immigration and the Red Scare | 134 |
Can the Alien Speak? The McCarranWalter Act | 149 |
Hector | 183 |
Bush and Clinton Address | 206 |
Presidential | 247 |
Afterword A New Hope or a Recurring Fear? | 272 |
Contributors | 279 |
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