Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices

by Patrick J. Daley and Beverly James

Alaska's indigenous peoples have used various forms of mass media and community media for purposes of cultural expression, self-determination, and political resistance. Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James elegantly reveal how newspapers, radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers.

Using six empirically grounded studies, the authors demonstrate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252029380
• ISBN13: 9780252029387
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"