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

• Chapter 1: Dirt, Scales, and the White Body PoliticChapter 2: “Build that Wall!;” Brutalizing Presidential Border War Policies and the Necropolitical DeathscapeChapter 3: The Scale of the Vulnerable BodyChapter 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

Kil (San Jose State Univ.) provides a rigorous analysis of news discourse focusing on how the nation and aspiring immigrants are depicted based on articles published in the Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, Albuquerque Journal, and Houston Chronicle from 1993 to 2006. The analysis demonstrates how immigrants have been "racially imagined" as thieves and rapists who drain social services resources and create injury to the suffering (and white) taxpayer. Theoretically rich and methodologically rigorous, this seven-chapter book examines the most recent "nativist wave," which has focused attention on immigrants and the US/Mexico border region. . . Brutalization theory helps Kil explain, throughout, why both the news-reading public and US policy makers might seek to further militarize the border despite the deadly costs of doing so. A comprehensive bibliography completes this engaging and accessible text. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

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

• Chapter 1: Dirt, Scales, and the White Body PoliticChapter 2: “Build that Wall!;” Brutalizing Presidential Border War Policies and the Necropolitical DeathscapeChapter 3: The Scale of the Vulnerable BodyChapter 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

Kil (San Jose State Univ.) provides a rigorous analysis of news discourse focusing on how the nation and aspiring immigrants are depicted based on articles published in the Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, Albuquerque Journal, and Houston Chronicle from 1993 to 2006. The analysis demonstrates how immigrants have been "racially imagined" as thieves and rapists who drain social services resources and create injury to the suffering (and white) taxpayer. Theoretically rich and methodologically rigorous, this seven-chapter book examines the most recent "nativist wave," which has focused attention on immigrants and the US/Mexico border region. . . Brutalization theory helps Kil explain, throughout, why both the news-reading public and US policy makers might seek to further militarize the border despite the deadly costs of doing so. A comprehensive bibliography completes this engaging and accessible text. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

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

• Chapter 1: Dirt, Scales, and the White Body PoliticChapter 2: “Build that Wall!;” Brutalizing Presidential Border War Policies and the Necropolitical DeathscapeChapter 3: The Scale of the Vulnerable BodyChapter 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

Kil (San Jose State Univ.) provides a rigorous analysis of news discourse focusing on how the nation and aspiring immigrants are depicted based on articles published in the Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, Albuquerque Journal, and Houston Chronicle from 1993 to 2006. The analysis demonstrates how immigrants have been "racially imagined" as thieves and rapists who drain social services resources and create injury to the suffering (and white) taxpayer. Theoretically rich and methodologically rigorous, this seven-chapter book examines the most recent "nativist wave," which has focused attention on immigrants and the US/Mexico border region. . . Brutalization theory helps Kil explain, throughout, why both the news-reading public and US policy makers might seek to further militarize the border despite the deadly costs of doing so. A comprehensive bibliography completes this engaging and accessible text. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.