Covering Immigration

Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation

Author: Leo Ralph Chavez
ISBN: 9780520224360

On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a growling guard dog lunging at a man carrying a pack. The magazine's coverage of emerging anti-immigrant sentiment shows how highly charged the images and texts on popular magazine covers can be. This provocative book gives a cultural history of the immigration issue in the United States since 1965, using popular magazine covers as a fascinating entry into a discussion of our attitudes toward one of the most volatile debates in the nation. Leo Chavez gathers and analyzes over seventy cover images from politically diverse magazines, including Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, The New Republic, The Nation, and American Heritage. He traces the connections between the social

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Citizenship/Immigation (CIIM))