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The Media play a diverse and significant role in the practical expression of racism and in the everyday politics of ethnicity. Written by two veterans of research on media and ‘race’, this book offers a fresh comparative analyses of the issues and sets out the key agendas for future study.
Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Media
Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Media
Our purpose in this chapter is distinctly ambitious for the space at our disposal. It is nothing less than to characterize and critically evaluate published arguments concerning the roles of media in articulating, underpinning or subverting racism, and in sustaining, developing or dissolving ethnic cultural identities. As we stated in our Preface, the mediation of racism via mass media of all kinds is not the only source of its devastating impact, but it also operates in a molecular and penetrative fashion throughout the capillaries and pores of today's world, as – in varying forms – it has done through five centuries since the onset of European colonial expansion. Likewise, the endless routines of media ...
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