What is it about?
We examine US newspaper depictions of immigrants during two periods in 2006, when the great immigration rights marches took place across the nation. We used a method of critical discourse analysis that is informed by cognitive metaphor theory.
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Why is it important?
We find two different portrayals, a positive to balanced representation of immigrants during the months of the great marches, but it reverts to a negative representation only a few months after the marches end.
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We explore the implication of the language used to frame the immigration policy debate.
Professor Otto Santa Ana
University of California Los Angeles
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This page is a summary of: A MAY TO REMEMBER, Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race, March 2007, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x07070117.
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