Dreamer Nation

Dreamer Nation
Author: Ana Milena Ribero
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0817360956

""Dreamer Nation" tells the rhetorical story of how Dreamers during the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation. By examining the activist rhetorics of the Dreamer movement, "Dreamer Nation" illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically-in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth. Contributing to rhetorical studies of social movements, immigration, and minoritized rhetorics, Ana Milena Ribero argues that even though Dreamer rhetorics were reflective of the discursive limits of the neoliberal milieu, they also worked to disrupt neoliberal constraints through activism that troubled the primacy of the nation-state and citizenship, refused to adhere to respectability politics, forwarded embodied identity and transnational belonging, and looked for liberation in community-not solely in legislative action. Both of and beyond neoliberalism, Dreamer rhetorics evidenced a rhetorical flexibility-a "both/and" sensibility-that allowed Dreamers to vacillate between neoliberal tropes and radical arguments. Ribero's theoretical model for this "both/and" approach derives from Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of nepantla, "the overlapping space between different perceptions and belief systems." In their ambivalent positionality, Dreamers were able to see through the limitations of neoliberal discourse and the promises of the nation-state, and to produce rhetoric that dared to imagine a world without borders, detention, or deportation. Each chapter in "Dreamer Nation" presents a different rhetorical situation within the US "crisis" of migration and the rhetoric that Dreamers used to respond to it. Organized chronologically, the chapters chronicle Dreamer activism during the Obama presidency, from the 2010 hunger strikes advocating for the DREAM Act to undocuqueer "artivism" in response to Trump's presidential campaign. The author draws not only on the methods and theories of rhetorical studies, but also on women of color feminisms, ethnic studies, critical theory, and queer theory. In this way, this book looks across disciplines to illustrates the rhetorical savvy of one of the most important US social movements of our time"--

American Dreamers

American Dreamers
Author: Michael Kazin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307279197

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—tells a new history of the movements that, while not fully succeeding on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society. Among these culture shaping events are the fight for equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; the inclusion of multiculturalism in the media and school curricula; and the creation of books and films with altruistic and anti-authoritarian messages. Deeply informed, judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, this is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.

Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer

Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer
Author: Alberto Ledesma
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814254400

From undocumented to "hyper documented," Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer traces Alberto Ledesma's struggle with personal and national identity from growing up in Oakland to earning his doctorate degree at Berkeley, and beyond.

The New Nation

The New Nation
Author: Edward Bellamy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 782
Release: 1891
Genre: Nationalism
ISBN:

Nation of Killers: Guns, Violence, White Supremacy: The American Dream Become Delusion

Nation of Killers: Guns, Violence, White Supremacy: The American Dream Become Delusion
Author: Jack Carney, DSW
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 148343883X

In recent years, the American dream has been usurped, taking numerous opportunities away from ordinary working-class, middle-class Americans. In Nation of Killers, author Jack Carney shares what he believes has gone wrong and what might be done to address and correct it. Carney offers readers information they might not otherwise have, seeking to provoke them into reconsidering some conclusions about this country and its future direction. He argues that violence-rooted in white supremacist ideology-has been employed by one percenters and their surrogates to promote the country's nineteenth-century expansion and its modern imperialist adventures and to subjugate those of its citizens who have been politically and economically marginalized since the nation's founding.

The DREAMers

The DREAMers
Author: Walter J. Nicholls
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0804788693

On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these young people the legal right to stay in the United States. The highly public, confrontational nature of these actions marked a sharp departure from more subdued, anonymous forms of activism of years past. The DREAMers provides the first investigation of the youth movement that has transformed the national immigration debate, from its start in the early 2000s through the present day. Walter Nicholls draws on interviews, news stories, and firsthand encounters with activists to highlight the strategies and claims that have created this now-powerful voice in American politics. Facing high levels of anti-immigrant sentiment across the country, undocumented youths sought to increase support for their cause and change the terms of debate by arguing for their unique position—as culturally integrated, long term residents and most importantly as "American" youth sharing in core American values. Since 2010 undocumented activists have increasingly claimed their own space in the public sphere, asserting a right to recognition—a right to have rights. Ultimately, through the story of the undocumented youth movement, The DREAMers shows how a stigmatized group—whether immigrants or others—can gain a powerful voice in American political debate.

The Enemy is Within

The Enemy is Within
Author: Helen Efthimiades-Keith
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900449426X

This work provides insight into the unconscious psyche of the Jewish nation at the time in which the book of Judith was written by analyzing the book according to Jung's categories of subjective dream analysis and Dawson’s literary theory.

Dreamers

Dreamers
Author: Snigda Poonam
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787381552

Commercial Nationalism

Commercial Nationalism
Author: Zala Volcic
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-02-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1137500999

This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.