Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Constructing and Challenging Myths
6. 1. The Latino Threat Narrative 23
7. 2. Cultural Contradictions of Citizenship and Belonging 48
8. 3. Latina Sexuality, Reproduction, and Fertility as Threats to the Nation 73
9. 4. Latina Fertility and Reproduction Reconsidered 97
10. Part 2. Media Spectacles and the Production of Neoliberal Citizen-Subjects
11. 5. Organ Transplants and the Privileges of Citizenship 115
12. 6. The Minuteman Project’s Spectacle of Surveillance on the Arizona-Mexico Border 135
13. 7. The Immigrant Marches of 2006 and the Struggle for Inclusion 157
14. 8. DREAMers and Anchor Babies 181
15. Epilogue 209
16. Notes 221
17. Bibliography 251
18. Index 287