
When Race and Policy Collide
Contemporary Immigration Debates
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 17. February 2014
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-4408-3124-9 (ISBN)
Description
Examining actual policy to identify the facts, this book exposes how racially charged political and legal debates over immigration reform in the United States continue to inform our immigration policy.
Immigration reform policies continue to influence domains like housing ordinances, official language laws, mass deportation, and bilingual education, amongst many other topics. In this work, authors Donathan Brown and Amardo Rodriguez demonstrate how immigration policies belie simplistic conversations pertaining to border control. Their focus is on actual policy as opposed to mere headlines and "talking points," as it is policy and the debates that it produces that inform the headlines and subsequently incite controversy and heated arguments. Each chapter of the book addresses both policies and the fallout they produce to clearly articulate how such policies usurp fact with fiction, producing residual messages that equate "diversity" with destroying our social and political order.
This accessible book provides high school, college, and graduate-level students insight into the laws and lawsuits stemming from current legislation, an understanding of the peculiar racial dimensions intertwined in these policies and debates, as well as comprehension of immigration reform against the grander backdrop of the growing Latino demographic in the United States. The authors argue that the varying degrees of immigration reform passed by state legislatures throughout the country are based on thinking that ignores the sociopolitical and cultural realities of modern-day America and continue to rely less on facts and more on fear, causing greater deep-seated paranoia, distrust, and resentment within our nation.
Immigration reform policies continue to influence domains like housing ordinances, official language laws, mass deportation, and bilingual education, amongst many other topics. In this work, authors Donathan Brown and Amardo Rodriguez demonstrate how immigration policies belie simplistic conversations pertaining to border control. Their focus is on actual policy as opposed to mere headlines and "talking points," as it is policy and the debates that it produces that inform the headlines and subsequently incite controversy and heated arguments. Each chapter of the book addresses both policies and the fallout they produce to clearly articulate how such policies usurp fact with fiction, producing residual messages that equate "diversity" with destroying our social and political order.
This accessible book provides high school, college, and graduate-level students insight into the laws and lawsuits stemming from current legislation, an understanding of the peculiar racial dimensions intertwined in these policies and debates, as well as comprehension of immigration reform against the grander backdrop of the growing Latino demographic in the United States. The authors argue that the varying degrees of immigration reform passed by state legislatures throughout the country are based on thinking that ignores the sociopolitical and cultural realities of modern-day America and continue to rely less on facts and more on fear, causing greater deep-seated paranoia, distrust, and resentment within our nation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-3124-9 (9781440831249)
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Persons
Donathan Brown, PhD, is assistant professor and editor of Journal of Race and Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Ithaca College.
Amardo Rodriguez, PhD, is professor and book review editor for Journal of Race and Policy in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.
Amardo Rodriguez, PhD, is professor and book review editor for Journal of Race and Policy in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.
Content
Introduction: The Continual Problems with Race and Public Policy
Chapter 1
Bilingual Education and Immigration Reform
Chapter 2
Official Language Laws Amidst Immigration Reform
Chapter 3
Housing Ordinances and Immigration Policy
Chapter 4
Borders and Immigration Policy
Chapter 5
Immigration and Voting Rights
Chapter 6
Recommendations and Conclusion
Epilogue
Since Shelby County v. Holder
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Chapter 1
Bilingual Education and Immigration Reform
Chapter 2
Official Language Laws Amidst Immigration Reform
Chapter 3
Housing Ordinances and Immigration Policy
Chapter 4
Borders and Immigration Policy
Chapter 5
Immigration and Voting Rights
Chapter 6
Recommendations and Conclusion
Epilogue
Since Shelby County v. Holder
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors