Summary
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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.
Pressurizing the Media Industry: Achievements and Limitations*
Pressurizing the Media Industry: Achievements and Limitations*
This chapter1 focuses on a major series of attempts made over the period 1992–2002 to pressure the US television entertainment industry into more varied and richer representations of people of color. As well as the work of minority-ethnic advocacy groups, it addresses attempts by members of the professional guilds in Hollywood to create initiatives framed with the same goals in view.2
The focus on entertainment, rather than news, is not to downplay the importance of the latter for a democracy, especially a functioning multi-racial democracy. However, democracy belongs to the imagination and emotions as much as it does equally to reason and logical debate. If we cannot feel a multiracial democracy we are ...
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