Elvira Arellano: No Rosa Parks--Creation of "Us" versus "Them" in an Opinion Column

Autor/in	McElmurry, Sara E.
Titel	Elvira Arellano: No Rosa Parks--Creation of "Us" versus "Them" in an Opinion Column
Quelle	In: Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 31 (2009) 2, S.182-203 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0739-9863
DOI	10.1177/0739986309331881
Schlagwörter	Undocumented Immigrants; Mexicans; Press Opinion; Newspapers; Mass Media Role; Discourse Analysis; Criticism; Social Structure; Audience Response; Language Usage; Urban Areas; African Americans; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Illegaler Aufenthalt; Mexikaner; Pressespiegel; Newspaper; Zeitung; Diskursanalyse; Kritik; Sozialstruktur; Zuschauerverhalten; Sprachgebrauch; Urban area; Stadtregion; Afroamerikaner
Abstract	From August 2006 through August 2007, Elvira Arellano, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, lived in a church on Chicago's West Side with her U.S.-born 7-year-old son, Saul, to avoid a deportation order. Her plight played out in Chicago-area and national media, piggybacking on a nationwide debate on immigration. This study focuses on one piece of media coverage of the Arellano controversy: a column written by the "Chicago Sun-Times" journalist Mary Mitchell, titled "Blacks Know Rosa Parks and You, Arellano, Are No Rosa Parks," published in August 2006. The controversial column spurred reaction from journalists and readers from other Chicago-area newspapers, mostly notably, "Hoy," a Spanish-language daily. This study will illustrate how Arellano is simultaneously positioned as a member of an in-group of "Us" or an out-group of "Them" in the "Sun-Times" and "Hoy" and will correlate this Us-Them positioning with differences in the perceived and/or actual audience of each newspaper. (Contains 20 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10