Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 1433111403
- ISBN-13
- 9781433111402
- Category
- Difference (Psychology)
- Pages
- 449
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Debra L. Merskin
Description
Foundations. Introduction -- Constructing categories of difference -- Minorities, meaning, and mass media -- Articulations of difference -- The articulation of difference. Country music and redneck woman -- The construction of Arabs as enemies -- Perpetuation of the hot Latina stereotype in Desperate housewives -- Commodified racism : brand images of Native Americans -- The pornographic gaze in mainstream American magazine and fashion advertising -- Women, lipstick, and self-presentation -- Sun also rises : Stereotypes of the Asian/American woman on Lost -- Coon songs : the Black male stereotype in popular American sheet music (1850-1920) -- Homosexuality and horror : the lesbian vampire film -- Television news coverage of "Day without an immigrant.
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