racism in mass media

This program examines the relationship between mass media and social constructions of race from political and economic persepctives while looking at the effects media can have on audiences--Publisher's description.

Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's media system, just as the media has contributed to--and every so often, combated--racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies.

Explores what Americans in general think about the poor--their images of poverty, their beliefs about its causes, and their notions of what the government's response to poverty should or should not be; and argues that cynical views of welfare and its recipients are permeated by racist beliefs.

Examines a wide range of issues related to race and ethnicity, including the role of race in a person's sense of identity, the influence race and ethnicity have on American culture, race's impact on American institutions, and other related topics.