Covering the Border War: How the News Media Creates Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide

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

Author: Sang Hea Kil
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 07/15/2021
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9781498561440
ISBN10: 1498561446
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism

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