List of Illustrations | |
List of Tables | |
Foreword | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Introductory Perspectives | |
U.S. Minorities and the News | p. 3 |
Minority Representation and Portrayal in Modern Newsprint Cartoons | p. 23 |
Disney does Diversity: The Social Context of Racial-Ethnic Imagery | p. 39 |
Beyond Employment Diversity: Rethinking Contemporary Racist News Representations | p. 51 |
Mass Media and Ethnicity | |
Hegemony in Black and White: Interracial Buddy Films and the New Racism | p. 67 |
Black Situation Comedies and the Politics of Television Art | p. 79 |
Crawling Toward Civil Rights: News Media Coverage of Disability Activism | p. 89 |
Media Stereotypes of Jews: From JAPs to MDs | p. 99 |
Still Crazy After All These Years: Italian Americans in Mainstream U.S. Films | p. 111 |
Ethnic Humor and Ingroup/Outgroup Positioning: Explicating Viewer Perceptions of All-American Girl | p. 125 |
Destroying the Past to Save the Present Pastoral Voice and Native Identity | p. 137 |
Ethnic Voices: Afrocentric Public Affairs Television Programming | p. 149 |
The Representation of Arabs in U.S. Electronic Media | p. 157 |
Moving Beyond the Screen: Hollywood and Mexican American Stereotypes | p. 169 |
Mass Media and Conflicts | |
O. J. Live: Raced Ways of Seeing Innocence and Guilt | p. 183 |
Mass-Mediated Realities and the Persian Gulf War: Inventing the Arab Enemy | p. 205 |
Who's the Victim? Intercultural Perceptions Between African American and Korean American Business People in Dallas | p. 217 |
Reporting Hantavirus: The Impact of Cultural Diversity in Environmental and Health News | p. 231 |
Mass Media and Education | |
The (Mis)Representation of Ethnicity and the Omission of Racism in K-12 Cultural Diversity Curriculum | p. 247 |
Representing Arabs: Reliance on the Past | p. 261 |
Using C-SPAN to Evaluate Sensitivity Toward Cultural Diversity: The Case of Ross Perot's 1992 Presidential Campaign | p. 273 |
Distortion of "Islam" and "Muslims" in American Academic Discourse: Some Observations on the Sociology of Vested Enmity | p. 279 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 293 |
About the Editors | p. 295 |
About the Contributors | p. 297 |
Index | p. 301 |
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