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Under US leadership, political structures in the post-9/11 world have developed and deployed rhetorical techniques aimed at identifying, excluding, and prosecuting specific bodies. In this paper, we analyze governmental and cultural rhetoric in the United States during 2006 on the issues of immigration (including immigration policies and proposed reform) and same-sex marriage (including bans to same-sex marriage via constitutional amendments), and we connect the rhetorical devices used to address these two concerns with constructions of US citizenship, notions of Americanness and the ongoing waging of war. Specifically, we highlight the conversion of ‘terrorists,’ immigrants, and same-sex couples into deviant bodies detached from US mainstream culture. That is to say, we concentrate on the social transformation of these bodies into ‘brown’ bodies - bodies perceived as threats and as requiring strict containment.View full textDownload full textKeywordsimmigration, same-sex marriage, terrorist, citizenship, containment, browning, cultural rhetoricRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502380903541688