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“They Are Bringing Drugs, Crime, and Rape”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration

While he may seem like an over-the-top anomaly, Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, anti-immigration rhetoric actually developed from bipartisan immigration discourse inaugurated in the 1980s, in response to the civil rights and “second-wave” feminist movements. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry explains how and why this happened. She argues that the way we talked about immigration in the 1980s in law and pop culture was a crucial ingredient in the forming of the neoliberal idea of democracy: even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability that continue to shape politics today.











When: Thu., Oct. 6, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Bluestockings
172 Allen St.

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While he may seem like an over-the-top anomaly, Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, anti-immigration rhetoric actually developed from bipartisan immigration discourse inaugurated in the 1980s, in response to the civil rights and “second-wave” feminist movements. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry explains how and why this happened. She argues that the way we talked about immigration in the 1980s in law and pop culture was a crucial ingredient in the forming of the neoliberal idea of democracy: even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability that continue to shape politics today.

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