scholarly journals Teaching the Immigration Debate in Freshman Composition

2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Michael Hale
Keyword(s):  
Freshman Composition ◽  
Immigration Debate

Freshman Composition Texts

1973 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Don D. Elgin ◽  
Margaret Allison Watkins ◽  
Nell Ann Pickett ◽  
Ann Laster ◽  
Anna Marie Thames ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Freshman Composition

Directing Freshman Composition: The Limits of Authority

1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Olson ◽  
Joseph M. Moxley
Keyword(s):  
Freshman Composition

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN A DEEP SOUTH CITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim M. Williams ◽  
Lonnie Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Immigration Debate ◽  
Black Elite ◽  
The Right ◽  
Study Participants

AbstractIn 2010, the Alabama GOP took control of the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. The next year, in a sharply partisan vote, the legislature passed, and Governor Robert Bentley (R) signed into law, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, also known as House Bill 56, the harshest immigration law in the country. This punitive state law was the impetus for Black elites in Birmingham to frame the immigration debate as a matter of civil rights and thus to see the issue in a new light. When Alabama Republicans moved to the Right on immigration, Black leaders in Birmingham moved Left. In this study, backed up by an event analysis of local newspapers, an analysis of interviews with members of the Black elite in Birmingham in 2013, who were previously interviewed in 2007, helps to substantiate this claim. In the summer of 2007, against the backdrop of an immigration debate in Washington, our Black elite study participants largely told us they had no stake in immigration. By 2013, many were willing to fight for immigrant rights at the highest level.

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