Brown Tide Rising : Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse

Foreword xi Joe R. Feagin Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Why Study the Public Discourse Metaphors Depicting Latinos? 1(12) Part I: Theory and Method 13(50) How Metaphor Shapes Public Opinion 15(48) Part II: Analyses 63(188) Proposition 187: Misrepresenting Immigrants and Immigration 65(39) Proposition 209: Competing Metaphors for Racism and Affirmative Action 104(52) Student as Means, Not End: Contemporary American Discourse on Education 156(41) American Discourse on Nation and Language: The ``English for the Children'' Referendum 197(54) Part III: Conclusions 251(70) Disease or Intruder: Metaphors Constructing the Place of Latinos in the United States 253(42) Insurgent Metaphors: Contesting the Conventional Representations of Latinos 295(26) Appendix: Tallies of Political Metaphors 321(12) Notes 333(32) Reference 365(28) Permissions Acknowledgments 393(2) Index 395