Media & minorities
Subtitle: the politics of race in news and entertainment
By: Stephanie Greco Larson.
Series: Spectrum series, race and ethnicity in national and global politics
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Minorities in motion pictures; Minorities on television; Minorities in mass media
Description: "Media & Minorities looks at the media's racist 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, and magazines - and systematically analyzes their representation of the four largest minority groups in the United States: African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Reality" television, American myths and racial ideology; title: Racial politics in fictional media-film and television; title: African Americans in film and television entertainment; title: Native Americans in film and television entertainment; title: Hispanics in film and television; title: Asian Americans in film and television entertainment; title: Representations of racial minority mass publics in the news; title: African American mass publics in the news; title: Native American mass publics in the news; title: Hispanic mass publics in the news; title: Asian American mass publics in the news; title: Social movements and the media; title: The civil rights movement and the mass media; title: Native American, Asian American, and Chicanos social movements and the media; title: Introduction to media coverage of candidates and politicians; title: News coverage of Black candidates and politicians; title: Newspaper coverage of Native American candidates and politicians; title: Coverage of Hispanic candidates and politicians; title: Newspaper coverage of Asian American candidates and politicians.