Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective (Communication and Human Values)

"Ethnic Minority Media provides an important....addition to the literature on media-minority relations....certainly furnishes an admirable first step in that direction further exploration of the field]." --Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association "This anthology takes a leap forward, bringing together material from cultures seldom linked before. Its strength is in the editor′s insightful introduction, the diversity of chapters, and the scope of analysis. . . . The collection promises to enrich scholarship and curricula; it provides opportunities to compare media experiences of aboriginal peoples in Australia, Chile, Canada, Greenland, Hawaii, and Alaska with those of minority peoples in France, Israel, Wales, Ireland, Algeria, nd New York." --Canadian Journal of Communication "This valuable collection of a dozen case studies addresses the role of ethnic minority media in the modern world. . . . The main value of this book lies in the rich and detailed descriptions of the ethnic minority media in various social locations. Each study is carefully researched, insightful, and provocative; one is struck by the great diversity of social arrangements that is possible in this area. . . . This collection, which will be of interest to students of ethnic relations, popular culture, and communications alike, provides us with extremely interesting and detailed case histories that may stimulate necessary theoretical development." --Contemporary Sociology "A useful collection on a subject only slowly coming to more academic and research attention." --Communication Booknotes "The case studies clearly reveal the dual, yet conflicting, status of the ethnic media. . . . The media employed for study encompass radio, television, and newspapers. Each is shown to exert an empowering role as a means of communication, an expression of minority identity and affiliation, and as a channel for mobilization and insurgence. . . . Ethnic Minority Media provides an important addition to the literature on media-minority relations. The text is useful in the sense that the articles are well-written and clearly underscore the politics of ethnic media as instruments of empowerment and/or domination. The introductory chapter is nearly worth the price of admission itself as Riggins engages areas as disparate as multiculturalism, social movements, and ethnicity. . . . The strengths of this collection (are) its diversity and breadth. . . . This text on ethnic minority media represents a workable introduction for anyone in the field of minority-media relations. There is much of value for those interested in how ethnic identities are constructed, sustained and reconstructed as salient features of society. The reward comes to those who begin to see ethnic minority media as essentially a contested site involving struggles between opposing ideologies and competing logics for control of the agenda. The final word in this field still needs to be explored, but Ethnic Minority Media certainly furnishes an admirable first step in that direction." --The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Does minority media contribute to ethnic cohesion and cultural maintenance? Or does an ethnic media encourage assimilation into the dominant culture by espousing that culture′s products, images, and values? Ethnic Minority Media explores these issues by providing a broad sampling of case studies that span a variety of ethnic minorities and countries. Each case study presents the different cultural, political, and economic conditions that figure prominently in the media′s role in ethnic survival or demise. The contributors, many of them internationally regarded journalists, primarily study the print and broadcast media that minorities have established for their communities. They focus on previously neglected minority media in the United States (Hispanic and Native), Great Britain (Welsh), Ireland (Irish), Canada (Native), Australia (Aboriginal), Israel (Roumanian), France (Occitan and Basque), Greenland (Inuit), Chile (Native), and Algeria (Berber). They analyze this phenomena on many levels, defining crucial terms, considering different audiences, and contrasting ethnic and mainstream media.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803947232
• ISBN13: 9780803947238
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.5"