Otto SANTA ANA

I study how the mass media legitimate social inequity. The American Political Science Association recognized my first book, "Brown Tide Rising: Metaphoric Representations of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse" the 2002 Best Book on Ethnic and Racial Politics. I have two books to appear in 2012. One is about television network news imaging of Latinos. It focuses on immigration as a national policy issue. It is called "Juan in a 100: the Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Evening News." (University of Texas Press, forthcoming fall 2012). The other is an edited book. Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante and I edited an anthology of original chapters on the political events of Arizona 2010. We call it: "Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media & Provincial Politics." Rowman & Littlefield Publishers will release it in on April 16, 2012.