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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.
Violence, ‘Race’ and Media: Comparative Perspectives
Violence, ‘Race’ and Media: Comparative Perspectives
It is relatively commonplace to contrast contemporary patterns of ‘racial’ and ‘ethnic’ subordination with other social divisions, notably ‘religious’, ‘national’ and ‘tribal’, and thereby downplay the significance of ‘race’, on the ground that whatever problems exist, they do not operate on the same scale as, for instance, the low-intensity civil war in Northern Ireland since 1969, the high-intensity civil wars in ex-Yugoslavia in the 1990s, or the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Hanging in the air is the unvoiced but pregnant implication that while White people may have something to answer for in their past, in the present era serious mayhem cannot be laid at their door, and consequently that people of color should get ...
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