Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

In Lady Liberty's Shadow

The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines popular white perceptions of danger represented by immigrants and their children, as well the spectre that lurks at the edges of suburbs in the shape of black and Latino urban underclasses and the ever more nebulous hazard of terrorism that threatening to undermine ""life as we know it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780813570082
• ISBN-10: 0813570085
• Artikelnr.: 45797492

Autorenporträt

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
 
1 The Politics of Immigration and Race in the “Garden State”
2 My Hometown: Immigration and Suburban Imaginaries
3 The New “Main Street”?: Ethnoburbs and the Complex Politics of Race
4 Being the Problem: Perspectives from Immigrant New Jerseyans
5 Fighting on the Homefront
6 Conclusion
 
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index