Leah Perry
Leah Perry is Associate Professor of Literature, Communication, and Cultural Studies at SUNY-Empire State College and a Fulbright Fellow (Hungary 2017-18 and 2019; Romania 2022-2023). She is the author of The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media (New York University Press, 2016). Her work can also be seen in journals such as Cultural Studies and Lateral, and in book collections such as Cultural Studies and the ‘Juridical Turn’: Culture, Law, and Legitimacy in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism (Routledge, 2016), American Shame: Stigma and the Body Politic (University of Indiana Press, 2016), and Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland (Routledge, 2020). Dr. Perry received her doctorate from George Mason University in Cultural Studies, a Master of Arts from New York University in Humanities and Social Thought, a Master of Arts and Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Manhattanville College. Her research and teaching interests encompass gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, migration, Indigenous studies, and media and popular culture. Her new book project, The Public Pedagogy of U.S. Empire: Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, Gender, Sexuality, and Race (forthcoming, Ohio State University Press), examines the nexus of Indigeneity and settler colonialism, im/migration, gender, race, and media.
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In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were at the same time disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture, this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of both neoliberalism and immigration.
https://nyupress.org/books/9781479823864/
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In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were at the same time disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture, this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of both neoliberalism and immigration.
https://nyupress.org/books/9781479823864/