Constructing Immigrant 'Illegality'
Constructing Immigrant 'Illegality'

Author: Cecilia Menjívar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1107041597

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This collection examines how immigration law shapes immigrant illegality, the concept of immigrant illegality, and how its power is wielded and resisted.

The Latino Threat
The Latino Threat

Author: Leo Chavez

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0804786186

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News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the many fictions about the "Latino threat." With new discussion about anchor babies, the DREAM Act, and recent anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona and other states, this expanded second edition critically investigates the stories about recent immigrants to show how prejudices are used to malign an entire population—and to define what it means to be American.

Affect, Cognition and Stereotyping
Affect, Cognition and Stereotyping

Author: Diane M. Mackie

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0080885799

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This volume presents a collection of chapters exploring the interface of cognitive and affective processes in stereotyping. Stereotypes and prejudice have long been topics of interest in social psychology, but early literature and research in this area focused on affect alone, while later studies focused primarily on cognitive factors associated with information processing strategies. This volume integrates the roles of both affect and cognition with regard to the formation, representation, and modification of stereotypes and the implications of these processes for the escalation or amelioration of intergroup tensions. Reviewed Development, maintenance, and change of stereotypes and prejudice Interaction of affective and cognitive processes as antecendents of stereotyping and prejudice Affect and cognitive consequences of group categorization, preception, and interaction The interaction of cognitive and affective processes in social perception Award Winning Chapter "The Esses et al", was the 1992 winner of the Otto Klineberg award given by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, which cited the chapter as having offered, "a substantial advance in our understanding of basic psychological processes, underlying racism, stereotyping, and prejudice."

Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations
Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations

Author: Hernan Vera

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-03

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0387708456

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The study of racial and ethnic relations has become one of the most written about aspects in sociology and sociological research. In both North America and Europe, many "traditional" cultures are feeling threatened by immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia. This handbook is a true international collaboration looking at racial and ethnic relations from an academic perspective. It starts from the principle that sociology is at the hub of the human sciences concerned with racial and ethnic relations.

Racism, Sexism, and the Media
Racism, Sexism, and the Media

Author: Clint C. Wilson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1452217513

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This fourth edition presents current information in the rapidly evolving field of minorities' interaction with mass communications, including the portrayals of minorities in the media, advertising and public relations.