1st Edition

Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

Edited By Chuka Onwumechili Copyright 2024
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

This book captures Donald J. Trump’s presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency, with a focus on race, immigration, xenophobia, and social conflicts as they interact with communication. The book utilizes research data to capture critical moments of the presidency. Chapters... Read more

Introduction—Donald Trump’s America: Communicating the Seeds of Racism, Xenophobia, & Persistent Conflict
Chuka Onwumechili

1. “Nasty Question” and “Fake News”: Metadiscourse as a Resource for Denying Accusations of Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Press Events
Natasha Shrikant and Sylvia Sierra

2. Communicating Racism and Xenophobia in the Era of Donald Trump: A Computational Framing Analysis of the US-Mexico Cross-Border Wall Discourses
Yowei Kang and Kenneth C. C. Yang

3. Alba the Undocumented: Immigration Law and Citizenship Excess in Jane the Virgin
Litzy Galarza

4. (Re) Framing Legal Vulnerability: Identity, Abjection, and Resistance among DACAmented Immigrants in the Era of Trumpism
Heidy Sarabia, Laura Zaragoza and Jesus Limon Guzman

5. The Media and Race in the Trump Era: An Analysis of Two Racially Different Newsrooms’ Coverage of BLM and DACA
Chamian Y. Cruz and Lynette Holman

6. First-Generation Immigrants’ and Sojourners’ Believability Evaluation of Disinformation
Solyee Kim and Hyoyeun Jun

Biography

Chuka Onwumechili is Professor of Communications at Howard University, USA and Editor-In-Chief of the Howard Journal of Communications (since 2015). He authored/co-edited more than 12 books and numerous academic articles. His most recent work is developing the African Cultural Theory of Communication (ACToC).