Stemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 2010s, and decades of the author’s profe

Stemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 2010s, and decades of the author's profess

NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS

Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States A “border” is

Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity Borders and citizens