Sang Hea Kil

Covering the Border War

How the News Media Creates Crime, Race, Nation, and the Usa-Mexico Divide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781498561440
• ISBN-10: 1498561446
• Artikelnr.: 62071551

Autorenporträt

Sang Hea Kil is associate professor in the justice studies department at San Jose State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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