Collateral Damage: The Influence of Political Rhetoric on the Incorporation of Second-Generation Americans - Softcover

Richey, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047205581X ISBN 13: 9780472055814

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2023

Synopsis

Collateral Damage provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation. These perceptions and feelings in turn greatly influence the children’s desire to incorporate into American political society. He also shows that regardless of a speaker’s intended outcome, what is said can still have a deleterious effect on incorporation desire, a communicative process that he terms “collateral damage.” Richey uses new experimental and survey evidence, as well as the rhetoric of Donald Trump as a test case, to examine how anti-immigration communication influences the incorporation of the children of immigrants.

About this title

About the Author

Sean Richey is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047205581X
• ISBN 13: 9780472055814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180