Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment"You're fired!" became the catch phrase in the spring of 2004 as NBC's The Apprentice captured public and media attention. Even though The Apprentice was not exclusively "about race." it communicated and reinforced racial messages that are part and parcel of the dominant American ideology. No matter which minority group is represented, media in American offer the same bill of fare: first, exclusion; followed by stereotyping that makes a sharp distinction between "good" minority members and "bad" ones; and finally, the telling of stories that justify racial inequality in American society. Media & Minorities looks at all these tendencies with an eye to identifying the "system supportive" messages conveyed and offering challenges to them. The book covers all major media--including television, film, newspapers, radio, magazines, and the Internet--and systematically analyzes their representation of the four largest minority groups in the U.S.: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Entertainment media are compared and contrasted with news media, and special attention is devoted to coverage of social movements for racial justice and politicians of color. Political communication scholar Stephanie Greco Larson brings sharp insight into how the white dominated media do a disservice to all their audiences when it comes to their representation of racial and ethnic minorities. She gives us ammunition for decoding the dominant messages and then combating them, whether through political activism, "culture jamming," or the creation and patronage of alternative media. Larson encourages readers to fight, the misleading media messengers, saying "you're fired!" to media thatundermine racial equality. |
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This is a really good book on how Native Americans are negatively portrayed in the media.I had to write an essay about this and this book really made it a lot easier to write.Really helpful.
Contents
Reality Television American Myths and Racial Ideology | 1 |
Racial Minorities in Films and Television Entertainment | 11 |
Racial Politics in Fictional Media Films and Television | 13 |
African Americans in Film and Television Entertainment | 22 |
Native Americans in Film and Television Entertainment | 44 |
Hispanics in Film and Television Entertainment | 57 |
Asian Americans in Film and Television Entertainment | 67 |
News Coverage of RacialMinority Mass Publics | 79 |
Social Movements and the Media An Introduction | 145 |
The Civil Rights Movement and the Mass Media | 152 |
Native Americans Chicanos and Asian Americans Social Movements and the Media | 178 |
News Coverage of RacialMinority Candidates and Politicians | 193 |
Media Coverage of Candidates and Politicians An Introduction | 195 |
News Coverage of Black Candidates and Politicians | 202 |
Newspaper Coverage of Native American Candidates and Politicians | 220 |
Coverage of Hispanic Candidates and Politicians | 237 |
Representations of RacialMinority Mass Publics in the News | 81 |
African American Mass Publics in the News | 94 |
Native American Mass Publics in the News | 108 |
Hispanic Mass Publics in the News | 119 |
Asian American Mass Publics in the News | 130 |
News Coverage of Racial Minority Social Movements | 143 |
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