Newspaper coverage of interethnic conflict
Subtitle: competing visions of America
By: by Hemant Shah and Michael C. Thornton.
Contributors: Thornton, Michael Charles.
Publisher: Sage
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Minorities -- Press coverage -- United States; Ethnic press -- United States
Description: "Newspaper Coverage of Interethnic Conflict: Competing Visions of America examines mainstream and ethnic minority news coverage of interethnic conflicts in Miami, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Authors Hemant Shah and Michael C. Thornton investigate the role of news in racial formation, the place of ethnic minority media in the public sphere, and how these competing visions of America are part of ongoing social and political struggles to construct, define, and challenge the meanings of race and nation. The authors suggest that mainstream newspapers reinforce dominant racial ideology while ethnic minority newspapers provide an important counterhegemonic view of U.S. race relations." "The general process of racial formation and the role of news in that process will be compelling to anyone studying the social construction of racial categories. Newspaper Coverage of Interethnic Conflict is highly recommended for students and scholars in the fields of Journalism, Mass Communications, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268) and index.