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I focus on how the mass media inscribe and 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 Best Book of the year on Ethnic and Racial Politics. The APSA selection committee stated: “In evaluating works in this category, our committee reviewed over 60 books and found [Santa Ana’s] research to be a compelling examination of political discourse surrounding Latinos in California.”

I then put together a book entitled Tongue-tied: The lives of multilingual children in U.S. public education. Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the op I focus on how the mass media inscribe and 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 Best Book of the year on Ethnic and Racial Politics. The APSA selection committee stated: “In evaluating works in this category, our committee reviewed over 60 books and found [Santa Ana’s] research to be a compelling examination of political discourse surrounding Latinos in California.”

I then put together a book entitled Tongue-tied: The lives of multilingual children in U.S. public education. Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own words. Tongue-Tied is designed to open the hearts of its readers to these children, by way of literature and accessible scientific essays. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, bell hooks, Richard Rodriguez, and less familiar authors open windows onto the lives of linguistic minority students. Tongue-Tied initiates a much-needed dialogue which, for once, will include these silenced citizens. With such an inclusive conversation, the current linguistic bigotry of the U.S., which most easily perpetuates itself through their silence, can finally be cross-examined.

In 2012 an anthology I co-edited appeared on the political events of Arizona 2010. We call it "Arizona Firestorm: The Global Realities of Immigration: Mass Media & Provincial Politics." Celeste González de Bustamante is my co-editor. We brought together top scholars in the fields of globalization, economics, immigration law, ethnic studies, education, and news media. The scholars cover critical aspects of the state’s anti-immigrant politics that the news media have not addressed. In very readable chapters these experts explain the factors that compel immigrants to leave their homelands; they lay out the historical context behind Arizona’s political acts, and consequences of these actions; and they describe the media’s role in shaping national opinion about the subject.

My most recent book is on how television network news portrays Latinos. It is called "Juan in a 100: The Representation of Latinos on network news.” Juan in a 100 offers 3 analyses of network television news images. It demonstrates how and why news stories with limited plots and restricted Latino characters constitute oppressive subject positions for news viewers as well as Latino subjects. I contrast such stories with examples of highly accomplished reporting that successfully expands the audience's worldview. While the findings are at times disheartening, I do not simply condemn the networks. Rather, I offer 3 distinct ways for scholars to understand US network news products, and 3 sets of constructive recommendations for journalists.

These days I am exploring the political power of comedy that is broadcast on commercial mass media. I recently published a paper on the racial politics of Jay Leno's humor. Mass mediated humor will be the topic of my next monograph.
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	Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education 4.31 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse by Otto Santa Ana (Goodreads Author), Joe R. Feagin (wrote foreword) 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“1663 Reverend John Eliot publishes the New Testament in the Massachusetts language, with the help of Indian translators and printers. 1775 The U.S. Continental Congress appropriates five hundred dollars to establish Dartmouth College in New Hampshire for the education of Indian children. 1778–1871 The U.S. enters into over 370 treaties with various American Indian nations. More than one hundred include specific provisions for educational facilities.”
― Otto Santa Ana, Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education

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“Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.”
― Gustavo Arellano, Ask a Mexican

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“I made a single change in the Bahktin quote on laughter: "Laughter has the remarkable power of pulling a man up close where he can be groped intimately from all sides, turned upside-down, inside out, studied from above and below, cracked open and gutted, examined to his very center, probing him, taking him apart, dismembering him, laying him bare and exposed to examine freely and be experimented on. Laughter destroys fear and pity about the man, making him a familiar object to the world and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation. Laughter is a vital prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically.”
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“Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, peer at it from above and below, break open its external shell, look into its center, doubt it, take it apart, dismember it, lay it bare and expose it, examine it freely and experiment with it. Laughter demolishes fear and piety before an object, before a world, making of it an object of familiar contact and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation of it. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

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