Covering the Border War - How the News Media Creates Crime, Race, Nation, and the Usa Mexico

This book examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is associated with order and brownness is associated with disorder in a variety of imaginative, nativist ways

List of contents

Chapter 1: Dirt, Scales, and the White Body Politic
Chapter 2: "Build that Wall!;" Brutalizing Presidential Border War Policies and the Necropolitical Deathscape
Chapter 3: The Scale of the Vulnerable Body
Chapter 4: A Ranch in the Wild (House Scale)
Chapter 5: A Battlefield and a Cataclysmic Flood (Region Scale)
Chapter 6: Border Symptoms and Border Treatments: A Disease Body Politic (Nation Scale)
Chapter 7: The Unbearable Whiteness of Seeing: Recommendations for Resisting Everyday New(S) Racism

About the author

By Sang Hea Kil

Summary

This book examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is associated with order and brownness is associated with disorder in a variety of imaginative, nativist ways

Product details

• Authors: Sang Hea Kil
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498561426
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6142-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; USA, Mexico, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Body politic, Border Militarization, Border studies, Crime Discourse, Geographic scale, Immigration, Media Discourse, Nativism , Political Science, Race and Racism, Whiteness, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, Media studies: Journalism