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The Black image in the white mind : media and race in America / Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki ; with a new preface.
Annenberg Library - Reserve P94.5.A372 U55 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Entman, Robert M.
- Series:
- Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in mass media.
- Mass media and race relations--United States.
- Mass media and race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- [Paperback edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- One of "The Progressive's" Best Books of 2000. Winner of the American Political Science Association's Robert E. Lane Award for Best Book in Political Psychology and the Frank Luther Mott-KTA Journalism and Mass Communication Book Award. "This book has the potential to be the most important book on race in the past three decades."-David Sears Drawing from close and creative analysis of television news reports, sitcoms, commercials, feature films, and from candid interviews with white Americans, "The Black Image in the White Mind" offers a comprehensive look at the intricate patterns of racial depiction in the mass media, revealing how those patterns shape and reflect the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks.
- Contents:
- Racial chameleon
- White racial attitudes in the heartland
- Culture, media, and the white mind: character of their content
- Meaning of blackness in network news
- Violence, stereotypes, and African Americans in the news
- Benign neglect in the poverty of the news
- Affirming discord
- Black power
- Prime-time television: white and whiter
- Advertising whiteness
- Race at the movies
- Reflecting on the end of racial representation.
- Notes:
- Originally published by the University of Chicago Pres, c2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226210766
- 9780226210766
- 0226210758
- 9780226210759
- OCLC:
- 48585247
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