Newspaper Coverage of Interethnic Conflict: Competing Visions of America

By Michael Charles Thornton and Hemant G. Shah

Book Overview

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 counter-hegemonic view of U.S. race relations.
The general process of racial 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803972318
• ISBN13: 9780803972315
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"