How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do they reinforce stereotyped attitudes on race? This interpretive analysis presents evidence of racism, including under-representation, within news texts. The author examines the values, traditions and practices of news production that, often unconsciously, serve to maintain the alienation of racial groups in society. While the focus is on local television news in the United States, Race, Myth and the News has a broad relevance to studies of culture and race.
Assessing Stalinist policy toward Jews, this book reveals the suppression of free expression of Jewish life, the forced assimilation of Soviet Jews, and the purging of Jews from official positions. It reveals the effort by Stalin to weed out Jews from prominent positions in the arts, sciences, and professional life.
Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement
This work tells the stories, in their own words, of the New Orleans civil rights workers who fought the racial terrorism that scarred so much of the South in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. The accounts span three generations of activists, tracing their risks, triumphs and disappointments.
Race Relations in South Africa and the United States
Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. In practice, however, the structures of consciousness which gave rise to and nurtured a system of white privilege and predominance are tenacious and enduring. In What Racists Believe, Gerhard Schutte examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained, revealing a range of social constructions and typifications of blacks. He concludes with a chapter comparing contemporary racial attitudes in South Africa and the United States.
This volume explores the manner in which Western missionary Christianity has been shaped through contact with indigenous peoples. The conversion of the local population ususally resulted in a religion and culture that was a mixture of orthodox Christianity and indigenous customs.
The Supreme Court and Minorities in Contemporary America
Studies the role of the US Supreme Court in race relations policy. This work argues that the Supreme Court considers the disadvantages imposed on whites - and not the character of harm suffered by blacks - to determine the measure of relief that it grants victims of racial injustice.
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist British intellectual culture. Pursuing her subject with literary, historical and psychological analyses, she argues that this anti-semitism must be understood in terms of its metaphorical link with mysogyny.
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
How typical of his generation was T.S. Eliot when he complained that Hitler made an intelligent anti-semitism impossible for a generation? In her new book, Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women, novelist and critic, Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist, British intellectual culture. Pursuing her ......
