Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Preface copyrighted c2001.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Racial chameleon -- White racial attitudes in the heartland -- Culture, media, and the white mind : the character of their content -- Meaning of blackness in network news -- Violence, stereotypes, and African Americans in the news -- Benign neglect in the poverty of the news -- Affirming discord -- Black power -- Prime-time television : white and whiter -- Advertising whiteness -- Race at the movies -- Reflecting on the end of racial representation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans through the images the media show. This text offers a look at the racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of whites toward blacks.