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

by Sang Hea Kil (Author)

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 Biography

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