Covering the border war: how the news media creates crime, race, nation, and the usa-mexico divide
Auteur :
Kil, Sang Hea
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781498561426
Date de publication :
8 nov. 2019
Dimensions :
23,0 x 16,2 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
531 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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