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This book captures Donald J. Trump's presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump's presidency, with a focus on race, immigration, xenophobia, and social conflicts as they interact with communication.
List of contents
Introduction-Donald Trump's America: Communicating the Seeds of Racism, Xenophobia, & Persistent Conflict 1. "Nasty Question" and "Fake News": Metadiscourse as a Resource for Denying Accusations of Racism in Donald Trump's Presidential Press Events 2. Communicating Racism and Xenophobia in the Era of Donald Trump: A Computational Framing Analysis of the US-Mexico Cross-Border Wall Discourses 3. Alba the Undocumented: Immigration Law and Citizenship Excess in
Jane the Virgin 4. (Re) Framing Legal Vulnerability: Identity, Abjection, and Resistance among DACAmented Immigrants in the Era of Trumpism 5. The Media and Race in the Trump Era: An Analysis of Two Racially Different Newsrooms' Coverage of BLM and DACA 6. First-Generation Immigrants' and Sojourners' Believability Evaluation of Disinformation
About the author
Chuka Onwumechili is Professor of Communications at Howard University, USA and Editor-In-Chief of the
Howard Journal of Communications (since 2015). He authored/co-edited more than 12 books and numerous academic articles. His most recent work is developing the African Cultural Theory of Communication (ACToC).
Summary
This book captures Donald J. Trump’s presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency, with a focus on race, immigration, xenophobia, and social conflicts as they interact with communication.
