LEADER 03962nam 22006615 450 001 9910984616403321 005 20231110232224.0 010 $a9780271088679 010 $a0271088672 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271088679 035 $a(CKB)5470000000571015 035 $a(DE-B1597)584599 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271088679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6894961 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6894961 035 $a(OCoLC)1309019315 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313351 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103467 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31784109 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31784109 035 $a(OCoLC)1251882173 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000571015 100 $a20210526h20212020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeportable and Disposable $ePublic Rhetoric and the Making of the ?Illegal? Immigrant /$fLisa A. Flores 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aUniversity Park, PA : $cPenn State University Press, $d[2021] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) $c10 illustrations 225 0 $aRhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;$v24 311 08$a9780271087887 311 08$a0271087889 311 08$a9780271088655 311 08$a0271088656 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Making "Mexican" in Deportability and "Illegality" --$t2 The Threat of Race --$t3 The Promise of Race and the Whiteness of Nation --$t4 Seeing Race, Recognizing Mexican "Illegality" --$tConclusion: Border Ambivalence and the Rhetorical Complexities of "Illegality" --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the "illegal alien" took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about Mexican immigrants and exposes how our words made these migrants "illegal."Deportable and Disposable brings a rhetorical lens to a question that has predominantly concerned historians: how do differently situated immigrant populations come to belong within the national space of whiteness, and thus of American-ness? Flores presents a genealogy of our immigration discourse through four stereotypes: the "illegal alien," a foreigner and criminal who quickly became associated with Mexican migrants; the "bracero," a docile Mexican contract laborer; the "zoot suiter," a delinquent Mexican American youth engaged in gang culture; and the "wetback," an unwanted migrant who entered the country by swimming across the Rio Grande. By showing how these figures were constructed, Flores provides insight into the ways in which we racialize language and how we can transform our political rhetoric to ensure immigrant populations come to belong as part of the country, as Americans.Timely, thoughtful, and eye-opening, Deportable and Disposable initiates a necessary conversation about the relationship between racial rhetoric and the literal and figurative borders of the nation. This powerful book will inform policy makers, scholars, activists, and anyone else interested in race, rhetoric, and immigration in the United States. 410 0$aRhetoric and Democratic Deliberation 606 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric$2bisacsh 610 $aRace. 610 $aU.S/Mexico border. 610 $aborder rhetorics. 610 $aborder studies. 610 $aimmigration. 610 $amigration. 610 $aracialization. 615 7$aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. 676 $a305.86872073 700 $aFlores$b Lisa A., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01793167 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910984616403321 996 $aDeportable and Disposable$94332727 997 $aUNINA