| Description |
xix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Studies in communication, media, and public opinion |
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Studies in communication, media, and public opinion.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The black image in the white mind : media and race in America / Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Tables and Figures -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Racial Chameleon -- 2. White Racial Attitudes in the Heartland -- 3. Culture, Media, and the White Mind: The Character of Their Content -- 4. The Meaning of Blackness in Network News -- 5. Violence, Stereotypes, and African Americans in the News -- 6. Benign Neglect in the Poverty of the News -- 7. Affirming Discord -- 8. Black Power -- 9. Prime-Time Television: White and Whiter -- 10. Advertising Whiteness -- 11. Race at the Movies -- 12. Reflecting on the End of Racial Representation -- Appendix: Data Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: African Americans in mass media, Mass media and race relations United States, United States Race relations |
| Summary |
"The Black Image in the White Mind offers a look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks." "Using the media, and especially television, as barometers of race relations, Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki explore but then go beyond the treatment of African Americans on network and local news to uncover the messages sent about race by the entertainment industry - from prime-time dramas and sitcoms to commercials and Hollywood movies. While the authors find very little in the media that intentionally promotes racism, they find even less that advances racial harmony. They reveal instead a subtle pattern of images that, while making room for Blacks, implies a racial hierarchy with Whites on top and promotes a sense of difference and conflict. Entman and Rojecki interweave such astute observations with candid interviews of White Americans that make clear how these images of racial difference insinuate themselves into Whites' thinking."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index |
| Subject |
African Americans in mass media.
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Mass media and race relations -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Author |
Rojecki, Andrew, 1946-
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| LC no. |
99086742 |
| ISBN |
0226210758 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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