Who belongs in America? presidents, rhetoric, and immigration

Beasley, Vanessa B., 1966- (Added Author).

Summary: "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, addressed, or otherwise corresponded to events."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781603445443 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1603445447 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1585445053 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781585445059 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1585445053
ISBN: 9781585445059
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	OldControl:muse9781603445443 CatBulkString:mar.15.13 Multi-User. Multi-User CatMonthString:mar.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Presidential rhetoric and immigration : balancing tensions between hope and fear / Vanessa B. Beasley -- President of all the people / Michael Novak -- The aliens are coming : the federalist attack on the First Amendment / Craig R. Smith -- Presidents and religious diversity in the nineteenth century / Charles J. Stewart -- Chinese exclusion : causes and consequences, 1882-1943 / Roger Daniels -- Hooking the hyphen : Woodrow Wilson's war rhetoric and the Italian American community / Mary Anne Trasciatti -- Immigration and the Red Scare / Robert H. Ferrell -- Can the alien speak? : the McCarran-Walter Act and the First Amendment / James A. Aune -- Questions of race, caste, and citizenship : Héctor P. García, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Polemics of the Bracero Immigrant Labor Program / Michelle Hall Kells -- Rhetorical ambivalence : Bush and Clinton address the crisis of Haitian refugees / Denise M. Bostdorff -- The class politics of cultural pluralism : presidential campaigns and the Latino vote / Anne T. Demo -- A new hope or a recurring fear? / Vanessa B. Beasley.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.